Seagate SkyHawk AI Internal Surveillance Hard Drive HDD 8TB 3.5″ SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache DVR/NVR Security Camera System Rescue Services Model No.: ST8000VE001
- ImagePerfect AI: Delivers zero dropped frames while supporting heavier workloads.
- Versatile Capabilities: Intelligently adapts to the scale of your AI environment, supporting up to 64 HD video streams and 32 AI streams.
- SkyHawk Health Management: Actively helps protect your surveillance storage by focusing on prevention, intervention, and recovery options. Includes RAID RapidRebuild—providing 3× faster volume rebuilds over traditional RAID rebuilds.
- Higher Reliability: Enterprise-class, with 2M hours MTBF and a 550TB/year workload rate for more than 3× that of standard surveillance HDDs.
- Recovery Services & Warranty: Five-year limited product warranty and three-year in-house Rescue Data Recovery Services included.


Tek Reviews –
Working very well in my custom designed CCTV hybrid DVR. Review of Seagate Skyhawk 4TB ST4000VX016.Yes its a bit noisy seeking, but mine is in a cabinet in the garage so I don’t mind at all, it might be a shade annoying in a quiet environment though.Performance is excellent, it holds up a constant fairly high record rate with easy, all the streams are smooth. Whilst also giving me really quick seeking and replay at the same time, the system just feels smoother and snappier.Beware, there is another version around that is a tiny bit cheaper, the ST4000VXZ16 – note the ‘Z’ in the code, it has only a quarter of the cache of this version and other changes. For a couple of quid more, this one (without the ‘Z’) is the one you want.To early to tell on life expectancy, these things do have a really hard life in this application so you have to be a bit realistic.
M. I. Ameer –
HD used for cctv system and still going strong. Great value.
Grebo69 –
no issues so far with this drive fitted straight into the new base unit and worked just fine brought it as it is meant for use in security Surveillance Hard Drive would recommend the seller as no issues with this order.
Irvv –
Exact direct replacement. Ordered Sunday evening arrived Tuesday. CCTV working again.
Jack –
Works in my Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE (UDM-SE) perfectly, no issues. Well apart from the information message that persists in the console “Please verify that your HDD is a CMR drive by checking the device’s spec sheet or the manufacturer website.” but I have checked and confirmed this drive is a CMR drive so it can be safely ignored.
V –
Pretty hard on my drives running 24/7 16 cameras but no hitches and vids load up quickly.
Tim –
Good drive
Drive works well so far. Checked serial # on Seagate website and warranty says good until 2030. Happy so far.