Seagate 10TB (ST10000VN0004): Recording Status
We have not found a manufacturer document stating the recording technology for this exact part number. We know what the drive is - a Seagate 10TB SATA-6G hard drive (3.5") that we track - but a recording technology printed without a source is a guess, and for RAID, NAS or ZFS use that guess is the one that matters. That is a statement about what we have found, not about what Seagate has published.
ST- Seagate product prefix. (Seagate - product part-number and model-number decoding)10000- Capacity field. 10000 denotes 10TB of formatted capacity. (Seagate - product part-number and model-number decoding)VN- IronWolf NAS family. (Seagate - product part-number and model-number decoding)000- we have not found a Seagate document defining this segment4- we have not found a Seagate document defining this segment
Part-number reference: ST10000VN0004 — decoded segments, sibling variants and the warranty check. Live rankings this model belongs to: every 10TB hard drive · 10TB SATA drives · Seagate 10TB SATA. Product pages for this part number: Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS ST10000VN0004.
Nearest model with a sourced answer: ST10000VN0008 (Seagate IronWolf 10TB, CMR). Listed for comparison only - two part numbers can use different recording methods, so its answer is not ST10000VN0004's.
| Maker | Seagate |
| Capacity | 10TB |
| Interface | SATA-6G |
| Recording technology | No maker source found |
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How to settle it for this drive
Read the model number on the drive's own label, then find Seagate's data sheet or product manual for that family. A document that prints ST10000VN0004 in its own row of a recording-technology table settles the question. A family page that names no part numbers does not: we have found maker pages that list neither a part number nor a recording method, and we no longer count them as sources. A retailer listing is not a source either - it is a seller's description, and sellers repeat what other listings say.
Documented Seagate drives at 10TB
These Seagate part numbers at the same capacity do have a maker document on record. They are listed for comparison, not as an answer for ST10000VN0004: two part numbers at one capacity can use different recording methods.
- ST10000NM0568 (Exos X) - not sourced
- ST10000VN000 (IronWolf) - CMR at family level
- ST10000VN0008 (IronWolf) - CMR
- ST10000NE000 (IronWolf Pro) - CMR at family level
- ST10000VE0008 (SkyHawk AI) - not sourced
When a source turns up
When we find a maker document that names ST10000VN0004, this page will state the answer with that document linked and the date we read it, the same way our documented pages do. Until then, the honest answer is that we do not know.
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We have no maker document that names ST10000VN0004, so we do not state its recording technology. The nearest part number we do have documented is ST10000VN000 (Seagate IronWolf). ST10000VN0004 starts with that number, and retail or OEM suffixes often mean packaging rather than a different drive - but we have not found a Seagate document defining the extra characters, so we do not extend ST10000VN000's answer to ST10000VN0004. Check the label on the drive, or the listing's own specification.