Seagate

Seagate SkyHawk 10TB

Surveillance7,200 RPM256 MB cache

The Seagate SkyHawk 10TB costs $499.10 right now, or $49.91/TB. The 4TB is cheaper per terabyte at $45.88/TB. The maker rates it for about 493 GB read or written a day.

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Seagate SkyHawk 10TB hard drive

Where to buy the Seagate SkyHawk 10TB

Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first.

  • Newegg
    $499.10
    Buy

Price history

Lowest in the last 30 days: $499.10. Lowest in 60 days: $499.10.

$497$499$501Sep 19, 2026Sep 22Sep 25
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Daily lowest price for the Seagate SkyHawk 10TB
DateLowest price
Sep 25, 2026$499
Sep 24, 2026$499
Sep 23, 2026$499
Sep 22, 2026$499
Sep 21, 2026$499
Sep 20, 2026$499
Sep 19, 2026$499

Lowest in-stock price each day at Newegg and B&H, across every version of this drive we list (including heatsink editions). Lowest point $499.10 on Sep 19; latest $499.10. Amazon prices appear in the offer list but are not charted.

How SSD and hard drive prices are moving overall

Specifications

Drive

Capacity
10TB
Form factor
3.5"
Spindle speed
7,200 RPM
Cache
256 MB
Platters
7

The maker does not state whether this drive is CMR or SMR, so we don't guess.

Rated for

Use class
Surveillance
Bays
Up to 16
Workload
180 TB/year
MTBF
1 million hours
Warranty
3 years

That is about 493 GB read or written a day, far more than a desktop writes.

Noise and power

Idle noise
28 dB
Seek noise
32 dB
Idle power
4.4 W
Operating power
6.8 W

Identity

Part number
ST10000VX0004
Other versions
ST10000VX0008

Quality score

How we score →

Scored from recording type (CMR or SMR), workload rating, warranty, measured failure rate where Backblaze covers the model, spindle speed, MTBF and cache. Use class and size filter; they never score.

35/ 100 among hard drivesValue 33.3 for the price
Partial confidence · 55% of specs known

Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 10TB hard drives: this drive costs $49.91/TB against a typical $45.30/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.

Recording (CMR/SMR)0/30unknown
Workload rating10/20known
Warranty8/15known
Field failure rate0/15unknown
Spindle speed10/10known
MTBF3/5known
Cache4/5known

A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares hard drives with each other.

See every capacity of the Seagate SkyHawk on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the Hard Drives table. For what a hard drive gives up against an SSD, see SSD vs HDD.

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