Hikvision Hard Drive: The Drives Hikvision's Own List Names, Priced on Amazon.co.uk

Hikvision hard drive list: entries in the v20260515 edition

Hikvision publishes a dated HDD compatibility list for its DVRs and NVRs, organised by recorder series. We read edition v20260515 and matched part numbers exactly. Entries from it:

Dates belong to series tables, not to drives. ST8000VE001 shows that: it is listed under the AI type dated 6 June 2022 and as Surveillance 8TB dated 15 May 2026. WD84PURZ-85B4HY0 has rows dated 23 February 2021 in some tables and 8 February 2021 in others, while the same drive without its suffix appears with 18 July 2024, so the list keeps older rows alongside new ones.

The newest date is concentrated in one place. In the table headed [NVR] DS-76 77 86 96 NXI-I/VPro (K22B1), 117 lines carry 15 May 2026, among them WD122PURP, WD121PURA, WD102PURP, ST8000VE001 and ST4000VX016. A part number can appear in that table and not in the one for your recorder, so open your own series rather than stopping at the document's title.

We also searched this edition for several drives that appear on Amazon.co.uk and did not find WD8002PURP, WD142PURP, WD181PURP, ST20000VE002 or ST24000VE002 in its text. Hikvision may write models with suffixes, so that is a statement about our reading of one edition, not a finding that those drives will not work.

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In all, the table draws on 47 listings in stock. The table shows 16 listings, from £25.76/TB, in pounds sterling inc VAT. This table covers the WD and Seagate surveillance families, so Hikvision-branded drives and the Toshiba S300 do not appear in it; the S300 is in the CCTV hard drive table. It is not a list of approved drives: it holds part numbers the list names, part numbers it puts in its DM SMR table and part numbers we did not find, so compare the model in each title with the entries above.

Two warnings in Hikvision's list

• IoT-model drives: Hikvision says an IoT model HDD is not compatible with its NVRs and DVRs because it is encrypted.
• DM SMR drives: those in its DM SMR table cannot be used for RAID, Dual-VCA data storage or custom log storage, but can be used for normal storage.

The DM SMR table covers three makers. Under Seagate it names 11 part numbers: ST2000VX012, ST2000VX015, ST3000VX016, ST3000VX017, ST4000VX005, ST4000VX013, ST4000HKVS001, ST6000VX010, ST6000VX011, ST8000VX002 and ST8000VX008. Under WD it names WD21PURX-78, WD41PURX-78, WD61PURX-78, WD21HKVS-78, WD41HKVS-78 and WD61HKVS-78, and under Toshiba DT02ABA200V, DT02ABA400V, DT02ABA400VH and DT02ABA600VH.

Two of those Seagate numbers, ST4000VX013 and ST2000VX015, have Amazon.co.uk listings, so they can appear in the table above. Where a document covers their recording technology, the Recording column shows it. If your recorder runs RAID or Dual-VCA, leave every drive in the DM SMR table out.

The temperature remark matters for recorders kept in cupboards and lofts. Hikvision attaches 'Only operates below 45 °C/113 °F ambient' to some entries, including the enterprise Seagate ST8000NM017B, so read the remarks column as well as the part number if your recorder lives somewhere warm.

Hikvision hard drive 1TB and 2TB

At 1TB, ST1000VX012, WD10PURU and WD10PURX each appear in several series tables with different dates, for example 22 November 2024 and 22 March 2023. WD10PURX alone has rows dated from 26 June 2013 to 15 May 2026. In the K22B1 NVR table all three carry 15 May 2026, and the Seagate appears there both as ST1000VX012 and as ST1000VX012-520. Older 1TB rows for ST1000VX001 and the Toshiba DT01ABA100V carry 22 March 2023.

At 2TB, Toshiba HDWT720UZSVA, the S300 2TB, appears in a table dated 15 May 2026. Seagate's ST2000VX012 and ST2000VX015 sit in the DM SMR table at the same size, so a 2TB Seagate listing needs its full part number checked before it goes into a recorder that uses RAID. Small drives rarely reach a table sorted by price per terabyte, so search by part number for a 1TB or 2TB replacement rather than waiting for a row above.

Sizing storage for a Hikvision recorder

Hikvision's list says which drives fit, not how big a drive you need. WD's camera-support figures assume one stream per camera at 3.2Mbps (1080p, H.265, 25 fps), and WD notes that results vary with resolution, format, frame rate and software, so use your recorder's own stream settings where you can. The CCTV storage calculator turns cameras, bitrate and days into terabytes.