Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB (7200RPM, SATA II)

Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading manufacturing expertise, the Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive the 12th generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family delivers 1 TB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage.

Best-Fit Applications

• Workstations
• Desktop RAID
• Gaming PCs
• High-end PCs
• Mainstream PCs
• USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage

The Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 hard drive combines proven technology and components with industry-leading manufacturing expertise to deliver up to 1 TB of sustainable desktop storage with 32-MB cache.

By combining sustainable Seagate technology and components with industry-leading volume manufacturing, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive delivers up to 1 TB of green, low-power yet high-performance, desktop storage.

This versatile drive family, also available in capacities of 750-GB with 32-MB cache, 500-GB with 16-MB cache, and 320, 250 and 160-GB all with 8-MB cache, is ideal for desktop applications such as workstations, desktop RAID, gaming PCs, high-end PCs, mainstream PCs and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.


Key Features and Benefits

• 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
• 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:
• 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate
• Up to 3 Gb/s instantaneous burst
• 32-MB cache on 1-TB and 750-GB drives, 16-MB cache on 500-GB drives, 8-MB cache on 320, 250- and 160-GB drives

Specifications

Technical

• Model Number: ST3500418AS
• Interface

: SATA 3Gb/s

Cache: 16MB

Capacity: 500GB

Areal density (avg): 329Gb/in2

Guaranteed Sectors: 976,773,168

Physical

• Height: 19.98mm (0.787 in)
• Width: 101.6mm (4.000 in)
• Length: 146.99mm (5.787 in)
• Weight (typical): 415g (0.915 lb)

Performance

• Spin Speed: 7,200 RPM
• Average latency: 4.16ms
• Random read seek time: <8.5ms
• Random write seek time: <9.5ms

Power

• Maximum start current, DC: 2.0

Warranty

• 3 year company provided