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Product Description
By now the world knows that Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives, from the world's premier storage provider, deliver years of reliable service and high performance. This is a product family that has been strengthened and refined over 12 generations. It embodies the highest levels of reliability, performance and capacity. And this latest generation is a leader in environmentally friendly storage.
The drive is available in capacities of 1 TB and 750 GB with 32-MB cache, 500 GB and 320 GB with 16-MB cache, and 250 GB and 160 GB with 8-MB cache. The Barracuda 7200.12 drive is an ideal choice for workstations, desktop RAID, gaming PCs, high-end PCs, Home Theatre PCs, mainstream PCs and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.
After years of pioneering research at Seagate, perpendicular recording is now a
proven technology. The Barracuda 7200.12 drive uses fourth-generation Seagate perpendicular magnetic recording technology to increase capacity and dependability
by storing data bits vertically rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean increased data density—which means higher performance to increase productivity.
The Barracuda 7200.12 drive delivers excellent power savings without sacrificing drive or system performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture eco-friendly PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy savings requirements.
Seagate hard drives have long been produced with the environment in mind, and not just with low power consumption. With Seagate and the Barracuda 7200.12 drive, our customers can have the best of both worlds—top hard-drive performance and the satisfaction of knowing they are using a high-capacity drive with a very small
eco-footprint.
Key Features
- Sustainable technology for a green world:
- Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled.
- Complies with the RoHS directive and several non-regulatory restrictions
- 12th generation of the world's most popular desktop hard drive
- Ships with the most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
- Delivers high performance:
- 125-MB/s maximum sustained data
- Up to 3-Gb/s instantaneous burst
- 32-MB cache on 1-TB and 750-GB drives, 16-MB cache on 500-GB and
320-GB drives, 8-MB cache on 250-GB and 160-GB drives
| Specifications |
| Model Number |
ST3500418AS |
| Capacity |
500GB* |
| Interface |
SATA 3Gb/s NCQ |
| Available Transfer Rates |
300 Mbytes/sec |
| Sustained Data Rate |
125 Mbytes/sec |
| Cache Options |
16 Mbytes |
| Average Latency |
4.17 msec |
| Spindle Speed |
7200 RPM |
| Bytes per Sector |
512 |
| Contact Start-Stops |
50,000 |
| Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read |
1 per 1014 |
| Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) |
0.34 % |
| Limited Warranty |
5 year Manufacturers
Warranty |
| Startup Current +12V Peak (A, +/110%) |
2.0 amps peak |
| Operating, Average (W) |
<8.0 |
| Idle, Average (W) |
<5.0 |
| Temperature, Operating |
0oC to 60oC |
| Temperature, Nonoperating |
-40oC to 70oC |
| Shock, Operating: 2 msec |
70 Gs |
| Shock, Nonoperating: 1 msec |
350 Gs |
Acoustics, Idle
Acoustics, Seek |
2.6 bels - sound power
2.75 bels - sound power |
| Height |
20.0 mm |
| Width |
101.6 mm |
| Depth |
146.9 |
| Weight |
540 g |
* One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
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