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.
- Sustainable technology for a green world:
o Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled.
o 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:
o 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate
o 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
Products specifications
| Attribute name |
Attribute value |
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Width
|
4" |
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Depth
|
5.79" |
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Height
|
1.03" |
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Weight
|
22.6 oz |
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Type
|
HDD |
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Sustained data rate
|
120 MB/s |
|
Start/stop cycles
|
50000 |
|
HDD size
|
3.5" |
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HDD capacity
|
1500 GB |
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HDD speed
|
7200 RPM |
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Storage drive buffer size
|
32 MB |
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Read seek time
|
8.5 ms |
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Write seek time
|
10 ms |
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Average latency
|
4.16 ms |
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Mean time between failures (MTBF)
|
750000 h |
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Interface
|
Serial ATA II |
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Operating voltage
|
5 / 12 V |
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Operating temperature (T-T)
|
5 - 55 °C |
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Storage temperature (T-T)
|
-40 - 70 °C |