ITEM# ST3500418AS
Description: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive
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.
Key Advantages
- 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
- Complies with several non-regulatory restrictions
- 12th generation of the world’s most popular desktop hard drive
- Reliable, proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
- 500-GB capacity
- Delivers high performance:
- 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate
- Up to 3-Gb/s instantaneous burst
- 16-MB cache
Best Fit Applications
- Workstations
- Desktop RAID
- Gaming PCs
- High-end PCs
- Mainstream PCs
- USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage
Specifications
- Model Number: ST3500418AS
- Interface: SATA 3.0Gb/s
- Cache: 16 MBytes
- Capacity: 500 GB
- Areal density (avg): 329 Gbits/inch2
- Guaranteed Sectors: 976,773,168
- Spindle Speed: 7,200 rpm
- Average latency: 4.16 msec
- Random read seek time: <8.5 msec
- Random write seek time: <9.5 msec
- Annual Failure Rate: 0.32%
- Maximum start current, DC: 2.0 amps