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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.

Model ST31000528AS SATA 3Gb/s 1TB

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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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Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 3Gb/s 1TB Hard Drive

ST31000528AS

Specifications
Model Number ST31000528AS
Interface SATA 3Gb/s
Cache 32MB
Capacity 1 TB
Areal density (avg) 329 Gbits/inch2
Guaranteed Sectors 1,953,525,168
PHYSICAL
Height (max) 26.1 mm (1.028 inches)
Width (max) 101.6 mm (4.000 inches)
Length (max) 146.99 mm (5.787 inches)
Weight (typical) 622 grams (1.371 pounds)
PERFORMANCE
Spindle Speed 7,200 rpm
Average latency 4.16 msec
Random read seek time <8.5 msec
Random write seek time <9.5 msec
RELIABILITY
Annual Failure Rate 0.32%
POWER
Maximum start current, DC 2.0 amps

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