Seagate SkyHawk and SkyHawk AI: Part Numbers, Ratings and Amazon.co.uk Prices

Seagate SkyHawk vs SkyHawk AI on Seagate's sheets

Seagate describes the AI line's workload as more than three times that of a standard surveillance drive, and says it supports up to 64 HD video streams and 32 AI streams. That is the line aimed at recorders running analytics; the standard line is the always-on recording drive.

Both sheets describe the three-year Rescue Data Recovery Services plan the same way: the body text calls it included, and a footnote says it may be offered in addition to the standard warranty and is offered for selected regions only. We have not found a Seagate document in our sources that names the UK among those regions, so do not count on it until Seagate confirms it for your drive.

Seagate SkyHawk price on Amazon.co.uk

In all, the table draws on 26 listings in stock. The table shows 24 listings, from £31.84/TB, in pounds sterling inc VAT. Both lines share this table; the two tables below split them, so you can compare like with like.

Seagate SkyHawk 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB and 8TB: the standard line

Seagate's DS2118.1 sheet lists six standard models over two tables: ST8000VX010, ST6000VX009, ST4000VX016, ST3000VX015 and ST2000VX017 in the first, and the 1TB ST1000VX013 in the second. It states CMR and 256MB of cache for all six, and rates the 8TB, 6TB and 4TB for up to 16 drive bays and the 3TB, 2TB and 1TB for up to 8.

The table shows 12 listings, from £31.84/TB. Some listings do not state an interface or form factor, so the part number in each title is the reliable check against the six models above.

Two answers for searchers. For 1TB, the sheet's model is ST1000VX013, rated at 180TB a year and 1M hours MTBF like the rest of the line; small drives rarely reach a table sorted by price per terabyte, so search by that part number. For 10TB, the standard sheet stops at 8TB, so a 10TB SkyHawk search leads to the AI line's ST10000VE001. The CCTV storage calculator shows whether your recorder's yearly writes fit inside the 180TB standard rating.

Seagate SkyHawk AI 8TB, 10TB, 12TB, 16TB and 24TB

Seagate's DS1960.15C sheet lists the AI line by capacity, and states CMR for every model on it:

• 8TB and 10TB: ST8000VE001 and ST10000VE001, air drives, 2M hours MTBF.
• 12TB and 16TB: ST12000VE003, ST12000VE001, ST16000VE005, ST16000VE004 and ST16000VE002, helium drives.
• 20TB, 24TB and 32TB: ST20000VE004, ST20000VE003, ST20000VE002, ST24000VE002 and ST32000VE000, helium drives.

The table shows 12 listings, from £32.50/TB. The 24TB and 32TB models are on the sheet, but a capacity appears in this table only while an offer for it is in stock.

The design split runs at 12TB: the 8TB and 10TB are air-filled with 2M hours MTBF, and every model from 12TB to 32TB is helium with 2.5M hours. For an AI-capable recorder, NVR hard drive sets SkyHawk AI beside WD's AI-tier line.

Seagate part numbers in Hikvision's DM SMR table

Hikvision's drive list, edition v20260515, has a DM SMR table that names 11 part numbers under Seagate: ST2000VX012, ST2000VX015, ST3000VX016, ST3000VX017, ST4000VX005, ST4000VX013, ST4000HKVS001, ST6000VX010, ST6000VX011, ST8000VX002 and ST8000VX008. The same table holds WD and Toshiba numbers too. Those drives are cleared for normal storage only: Hikvision rules them out for RAID, Dual-VCA data storage and custom log storage.

None of the 11 is among the six models on DS2118.1, and they sit at the same capacities: at 8TB the sheet's CMR model is ST8000VX010, at 6TB ST6000VX009, at 4TB ST4000VX016, at 3TB ST3000VX015 and at 2TB ST2000VX017. Two of the DM SMR numbers, ST4000VX013 and ST2000VX015, have Amazon.co.uk listings, so they can turn up in the tables above, labelled SMR in the Recording column where a document covers the part number or its family.

The list names CMR SkyHawks too, and its dates belong to series tables. ST8000VX010 has 16 rows: 15 dated from 18 May 2022 to 30 June 2025 across many tables, and one dated 15 May 2026 in the K22B1 NVR table; ST4000VX016 also appears in a table dated 15 May 2026, and ST8000VE001 is listed under the AI type. Check your recorder's own table, or go part number by part number on Hikvision hard drive.