Barracuda Desktop Hard Drive

 
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The Power of One.

The Barracuda® hard drive gives you one hard drive platform for every desktop storage application. One drive with trusted performance, reliability, simplicity and capacity.

  • 1TB/disk 7200 RPM platform provides affordable capacity up to 3TB
  • Seagate OptiCache™ technology improves performance by up to 45%
  • Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables reliable read/write performance even in high touch operating environments
  • Seagate SmartAlign™ technology for no-hassle transition to Advanced Format 4K sector technology
  • Free DiscWizard™ software enables 3TB drive use on legacy PC BIOS as well as Windows XP-based systems
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  • Windows 7 Compatible

    Windows 7 32 and 64-Bit

     
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Barracuda hard drives give you what you want.

Count on Barracuda drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up.

  • 7200 RPM performance–from 250GB all the way up to 3TB
  • OptiCache™ technology further exploits big 64MB cache sizes and improved micro processor capabilities
  • SATA 6Gb/s technology to further maximize performance
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Your no-hassle transition to 4K sectors.

Are you worried about moving to Advanced Format 4K sector technology? You don’t have to be with Barracuda drives. Seagate SmartAlign™ technology makes this transition a snap:

  • No utilities to run
  • No extra integration steps to take up your time
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Barracuda 7200 Overview

Maximizes hard drive storage densities.

Barracuda 1TB-per-disk technology incorporates 340,000 unique tracks in the width of a single inch. This incredible storage density drives new capacity possibilities and lowers your total storage costs.

Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables new storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide! That’s about 500 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.

Buzz

Recent Blog Posts

The period at the end of a sentence is 1,000,000 nanometers wide.

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November 09, 2011 The Storage Effect - Seagate Corporate

Seagate Barracuda: What the experts are saying…so far

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November 03, 2011 Storage Means Business - Seagate SMB

The “Secret” of Barracuda Green’s performance (read the review)

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May 31, 2011 Storage Means Business - Seagate SMB

Barracuda LP gets a new last name

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November 16, 2010 The Storage Effect - Seagate Corporate
Recent Blog Posts

The period at the end of a sentence is 1,000,000 nanometers wide.

| Read Post  
November 09, 2011 The Storage Effect - Seagate Corporate

Barracuda LP gets a new last name

| Read Post  
November 16, 2010 The Storage Effect - Seagate Corporate
Recent Blog Posts

Seagate Barracuda: What the experts are saying…so far

| Read Post  
November 03, 2011 Storage Means Business - Seagate SMB

The “Secret” of Barracuda Green’s performance (read the review)

| Read Post  
May 31, 2011 Storage Means Business - Seagate SMB

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High-Capacity Storage Readiness

Enabling key elements for hard drive capacities over 2.1TB

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Tech Insight

Why Nearline SAS Drives Are Entering the Capacity-Optimized Drive Market

Capacity-optimized hard drives are in demand

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Perfect when you need to:
  • Build desktop or all-in-one PCs Equip home servers
  • Create PC-based gaming systems
  • Implement a desktop RAID
  • Outfit direct attached external storage devices (DAS)
  • Build network attached storage devices (NAS)
What do you get?
  • Barracuda® desktop hard drive
  • Free DiscWizard™ software
  • Interface cable, power adapter, mounting screws, and CD with software and manual*
  • Quick installation guide*

*These items included with self-installation kits only.