Seagate SkyHawk AI Spec and Price in the United Kingdom
SkyHawk AI is Seagate's top surveillance drive, rated for the read-heavy pattern of AI video analytics on top of recording: 7200rpm, a 256MB cache, a 550TB/year workload rating, and a five-year warranty, per the Seagate data sheet. The extra workload headroom over the base SkyHawk (180TB/year) is the whole product: camera arrays doing continuous recording plus analytics reads wear a surveillance drive twice as fast. The price gap to the base line is the endurance being bought.
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- 8TB
- 12TB
- 16TB
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Specifications
- Capacity
- 16TB
- Interface
- SATA
- Sequential read
- 250 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 250 MB/s
- Rotation speed
- 7200 RPM
- Form factor
- 3.5-inch
- Cache
- 256 MB
- Warranty
- 5 years
Capacities
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What owners and reviewers say
Summarised from 2 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices
Commonly praised
- Reviewers position it for video-surveillance and AI edge deployments, with firmware aimed at zero dropped frames under heavy multi-stream load.
- It has a high workload rating and mean time between failures, plus a five-year warranty with data-recovery service.
- Owners deploying them in surveillance systems report they work reliably with network recorders.
Commonly criticised
- It is slower than the enterprise and NAS-optimised drives in random workloads.
- Owners warn they run louder than typical NAS drives, and some report units arriving used or damaged.
Sources behind this summary
- Newegg — 4.1 out of 5 (12 ratings), as of September 13, 2026
- StorageReview — review
Sources
Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.