Seagate Barracuda 250 Gb 7200 Rpm Sata 3Gb/S 8Mb Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive St3250318As-Bare Drive

From the Manufacturer Seagate? Barracuda? drives deliver reliable service and high performance. The Barracuda family has been developed and refined over 12 generations and embodies the highest levels of design for reliability and performance. While Barracuda LP is the low power leader, the entire family of Barracuda drives lead with environmental friendly storage. Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used in each drive are recycled as well as being RoHS compliant. With capacities from 160GB all the way to 2TB, and cache sizes up to 64MB, there is Barracuda drive to fit your needs. Whether its mainstream PC, high-end PC, gaming PC, desktop RAID or storage for USB/FireWire/eSATA connected external, Seagate offers a Barracuda drive for every need. Seagate? Barracuda? 3.5-Inch Internal Drive What the experts are saying... Performance and reliability for everyone Working with huge files has never been easier. Thats because the Seagate Barracuda drive is incredibly fast, and offers all the storage space you need. Best of all, Seagate reliability is built in. The Seagate Barracuda 3.5-inch Internal Drive is perfect for replacing or expanding your desktop drive capacity in: Desktop PCs and MacsWorkstationsDirect- and network-attached external storage devicesPC-based game systemsHome servers Why Choose the Seagate Barracuda drive Lowers your storage costs without sacrificing performance Gives you all the storage capacity you need, from 160GB up to 1.5TBFeatures a fast 7200-RPM drive that delivers sustained transfer rates of up to 125MB/sDelivers the optimum mix of performance and energy efficiency thanks to perpendicular recording technology, a SATA 3Gb/s interface, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), and up to 32MB cacheEnsures whisper-quiet operation, reduced power consumption and heat generationIncludes Seagate?s proven, industry-leading reliability ?irst two platter 1TB drive; wicked fast. Beats previous contender easily.?Maximum PC, July 2009 ?lazing fast speeds, silent, cool, energy efficient?009 Editors choice award. -TechTree, April 2009 ?trong performance and noticeably quieter than its predecessor. The Barracuda 7200.12 1TB is more than good enough for an OS drive, but also good bottomless storage for your movies and music.?PC Authority, September 2009 ?ver the period of about 4 weeks of brutal testing, I was unable to find any issues or anomalies in their performance. The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drives appear to be the real deal with solid performance at an excellent price. Club Overclocker Recommended.?Club Overclocker, March 2009 ?he Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB hard drive is speedy and offers good value. If you need 1TB of data storage in a single drive, this is worth considering.?Good Gear Guide, April 2009 ?onsidering price, performance, and energy efficiency, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB hard drive earns the Bigbruin.com award of Recommended.?Big Bruin, April 2009 ? ? Seagate is thinking green. Seagate had already begun demanding full materials disclosure of its suppliers, requiring them to report all the chemicals present in their products, when Apple came knocking with its new orders in 2007. ? Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek ? ? Seagate? Barracuda? Family Hard Drives: Desktop storage for every need Barracuda Drive Specifications Specifications1.5 TB11 TB1750 GB1500 GB1320 GB1250 GB1160 GB1 Model Number ST31500341AS ST31000528AS ST3750528AS ST3500418AS ST3500410AS ST3320418AS ST3250318AS ST3160318AS Interface Options SATA 3Gb/s NCQ SATA 3Gb/s NCQ SATA 3Gb/s NCQ SATA 3Gb/s NCQ SATA 3Gb/s NCQ SATA 3Gb/s NCQ SATA 3Gb/s NCQ Performance Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s) 300 300 300 300 300 300 300 Sustained Data Rate OD (MB/s) 120 125 125 125 125 125 125 Cache (MB) 32 32 32 16 16 8 8 Average Latency (ms) 4.16 4.17 4.17 4.17 4.17 4.17 4.17 Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200 7200 7200 7200 7200 7200 7200 Configuration/Organization Bytes per Sector 512 512 512 512 512 512 512 Reliabil

Features of Seagate Barracuda 250 Gb 7200 Rpm Sata 3Gb/S 8Mb Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive St3250318As-Bare Drive

Capacity: 250 GB; Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm Cache: 8 MB; Interface: SATA 3Gb/s; Max. External Transfer Rate: 300 MB/s Average Seek Time - Average latency: 4.16ms, Read: <8.5ms, Write: <9.5ms Shock - Operating: 70G 2ms; Non-operating: 350G 2ms

Specification of Seagate Barracuda 250 Gb 7200 Rpm Sata 3Gb/S 8Mb Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive St3250318As-Bare Drive

Product Details
Color	Green
Size	250 GB
Dimensions	9.02X6.5X1.42
Weight	0.95