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Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 500GB 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.

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Model ST3500418AS SATA 3Gb/s 500GB

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Workstations
Desktop RAID
Gaming PCs
High-end PCs
Mainstream PCs
USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage

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.

Key Features and Benefits

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
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:

160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate
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

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