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Barracuda® 7200.12 Desktop Hard Drives

Seagate® Barracuda® hard drives continue to leverage technology leadership and manufacturing excellence to deliver fast, reliable and affordable desktop storage with capacities from 160GB – 1.5TB.

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Best-Fit Applications

  • 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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