Testseek.com have collected 51 expert reviews of the Seagate 3.5 inch SkyHawk Surveillance SATA600 ST-VX Series and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate 3.5 inch SkyHawk Surveillance SATA600 ST-VX Series.
May 2021
(85%)
51 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Once again, Seagate has proven why it's the leading brand when it comes to storage solutions. They've been at it for the past 40 years, and they're not showing us any signs of slowing down. While the company has been releasing application-specific drives...
The SkyHawk is an excellent hard drive, and all things being otherwise equal, the 14TB drive I'd likely put in a single drive or mirrored NVR. But its siblings the IronWolf and the Barracuda, and for that matter, WD's Gold and Purple (another surveillance...
While the Seagate Skyhawk Surveillance drive shares similarities with the older Seagate Archive drive in terms of most of its parts, the performance of the two drives are quite different. The Skyhawk's faster 7200rpm spindle speed provides much improved s...
The 4TB Surveillance adds to the impressive portfolio of purpose-built solutions from Seagate. While this drive might show that it has some similarities in terms of performance to the NAS solution, there are certainly areas where you can see that Seagate...
Abstract: In the beginning there was Storage and the Gods of the IT department liked it. There was no choice. There was no worrying over what was best for what server. It was Storage and all was right in the garden of Eden. Then Adam and st/Eve ate of the Apple of...
Abstract: What's the most critical component of any computer system?Right: the drive that contains YOUR data! And yet we give so little attention to which company we entrust our digital life to and to preserve it.I've had countless hard drives and SSDs fail in work...
250MBps sustained transfer rates, AI version carries a 5-year warranty, Sensors help compensate for the vibration from other hard drives in an array
Not as fast in our tests as the IronWolf, Not much cheaper than the Barracuda or IronWolf
The SkyHawk is an excellent hard drive, and all things being otherwise equal, the 14TB drive I'd likely put in a single drive or mirrored NVR. But its siblings the IronWolf and the Barracuda, and for that matter, WD's Gold and Purple (another surveillance...
Seagate once again proves why it has been a leader in storage solutions for nearly 40 years and shows no signs of slowing down. While Seagate has done application specific drives for a long time, the new Guardian families make it incredibly simple to get...
Build Quality (180TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF), Near-Excellent Performance (SATA), 256MB Cache, 10TB's Capacity, Temperatures / Power
Price (For Some),
Having the ability to choose from a wide selection of hard disk drives tailored for specific uses is never a bad thing so it's no wonder the Guardian Series by Seagate has been welcomed by millions of people around the world. Still although Se...
Highest capacity surveillance drive currently shipping, Strongest sequential write performance, large bump in iSCSI performance over prior generation, Designed to work with most surveillance equipment
Falls behind WD Purple in iSCSI sequential transfers
The Seagate SkyHawk is a drive designed to work specifically in surveillance; the drive has a massive 10TB capacity and great performance for this targeted use case...
