Barracuda Green Desktop Hard Drive

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Green speed machine

Barracuda® Green desktop hard drives feature capacities of up to 2TB and a unique 5,900 RPM spin speed to deliver the highest performance available in a green drive.

  • Up to 20 per cent faster than other eco-friendly internal hard drives
  • Up to 44 per cent less power consumption than standard desktop drives
  • Optimised performance with a 64MB cache and a SATA 6Gb/s interface
  • SmartAlign™ technology for easy migration to the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard
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Big performance Small eco-footprint

Barracuda Green desktop hard drives deliver the best of both worlds: best-in-class performance and a small eco-footprint.

  • Sustained data transfer rates of up to 144MB/s
  • Seventy per cent or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable
  • Reduced power usage and heat output save cooling costs and increase the drive’s useful life
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Delivers more storage

Barracuda Green desktop hard drives are available in enormous 2TB or 1.5TB capacities. The 2TB models can hold up to 45 hours of 1080i, HD-DVCPRO encoded video — enough to produce several feature length video masterpieces.

Rest easy knowing that your Barracuda Green desktop hard drive will provide ample space and years of worry-free operation.

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Migrates easily to Advanced Format 4K sector technology

The Barracuda Green desktop hard drive includes Seagate® SmartAlign™ technology. This innovation provides easy access to all the benefits of the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard — no utilities, no extra steps.

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SmartAlign™ technology for easy 4K migration

A change is coming in the hard drive industry. The smallest sector of organised data on a drive is moving from 512 to 4,096 bytes. The format, known as Advanced Format (AF) 4K, offers advantages such as increased efficiency, but migrating your drive can be challenging.

Luckily, Seagate® is ready to help you make a seamless transition to 4K sectors.

Seagate® Barracuda® Green desktop hard drives feature Seagate SmartAlign technology, which automatically does the work of AF migration in the background. The drive’s performance is not affected, and there is no need for the time-consuming utilities that are required by other AF-enabled drives.

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Legendary Barracuda Quality

Barracuda Green desktop hard drives are a new generation of this highly popular family of desktop hard drives. With more than 600,000,000 units installed, Barracuda drives offer industry-leading environmental stewardship:

  • Up to fifty per cent of the materials used in the manufacture of Barracuda drives come from recycled sources
  • Barracuda drives comply with the RoHS directive on hazardous materials
  • Seventy per cent or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable

This legendary family of hard drives also offers a plethora of Seagate innovations, such as these Barracuda Green desktop hard drive features:

  • Increased capacity and dependability using proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
  • Whisper-quiet operation with the Seagate SoftSonic™ motor
  • The only utility-free Advanced Format hard drives — now available with Barracuda Green drives
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