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Seagate SkyHawk HDD Spec and Price in Italy

SATA4TB

SkyHawk is Seagate's surveillance line: a low-RPM spindle tuned for the sustained sequential writes of video recording, a 256MB cache, and a 180TB/year workload rating, per the Seagate data sheet. ImagePerfect is Seagate's marketing for the frame-drop-free streaming claim, and the firmware is built for always-on DVR duty. The three-year warranty matches WD Purple; the choice between them is usually price and NAS-or-surveillance branding.

Current best price

No tracked price — this page compares specifications alone.

Specifications

Capacity
4TB
Interface
SATA
Sequential read
180 MB/s
Sequential write
180 MB/s
Form factor
3.5-inch
Cache
256 MB
Warranty
3 years

Capacities

ConfigurationPart number
4TBST4000VX016
8TBST8000VX009

Guides for this category

How much hard drive you actually needWhat a mechanical drive is still for beside an SSD, how to size it for the pile you are offloading, and why a cheap high-capacity drive can be slow.Portable vs desktop hard driveWhat the enclosure decides between a bus-powered 2.5-inch drive and a mains-powered 3.5-inch one, and why an external listing carries fewer numbers.

What owners and reviewers say

Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 13, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices

Commonly praised

  • The highest-capacity surveillance drive shipping at review time, with strong sequential-write performance.
  • Firmware designed to reduce dropped frames, built for around-the-clock operation with many camera streams.

Commonly criticised

  • Fell behind its direct rival in sequential transfers, with some large-block reads at the back of the group.
  • Only a three-year limited warranty.

Sources behind this summary

Sources

Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.