Seagate ST31000340NS Barracuda ES.2 Product Overview

1-TB, 750-GB, 500-GB and 250-GB capacities

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SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s

Key Features and Benefits

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Specifically designed for Tier 2 nearline applications, with one

terabyte of second-generation perpendicular recording available

on a single, four-platter drive

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The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7

operation

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Seagate

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PowerTrim

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technology dynamically optimizes power

consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent over prior

generation of Barracuda ES drives.

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Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance provides unrivalled

performance in high spindle-density systems.

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Available with SATA or SAS interfaces

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Full internal IOEDC/IOECC* data integrity protection on SAS models

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Dual-ported, multi-initiator SAS provides full-duplex compatibility

and a 135 percent average** performance improvement over SATA.

Best-Fit Applications

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Storage-hungry business applications

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Network attached storage (NAS)

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Storage area networks (SAN)

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Maximum capacity servers

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Rich media content storage—audio, video, image

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Reference and compliance data storage

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Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape

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Collaboration—email, messaging

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Infrastructure—Web, print, file

*IOEDC/IOECC on SATA (writes only), IOEDC/IOECC on SAS (both reads and writes)

**Averaged from random/sequential, read/write activities with write cache off

Barracuda

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ES.2

The highest-capacity drives in Tier 2 nearline,

business-critical storage

Product Overview