Seagate ST3500418AS Barracuda 7200.12 Product Overview - Page 1

Seagate ST3500418AS - Barracuda 500 GB Hard Drive Manual

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Product Overview Barracuda® 7200.12 The industry's leading combination of capacity, performance and reliability 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 and several non-regulatory restrictions. • 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: - 125-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 and 320-GB drives, 8-MB cache on 250-GB and 160-GB drives Key Applications • Workstations • Desktop RAID • Gaming PCs • High-end PCs • Mainstream PCs • USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage

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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 and several non-regulatory
restrictions.
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:
- 125-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 and 320-GB drives, 8-MB cache on 250-GB and
160-GB drives
Key Applications
Workstations
Desktop RAID
Gaming PCs
High-end PCs
Mainstream PCs
USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage
Barracuda
®
7200.12
The industry’s leading combination of
capacity, performance and reliability
Product Overview