Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-OEM Drives ST3500413AS

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-OEM Drives ST3500413AS Review

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare-OEM Drives ST3500413AS Feature

• Seagate technology yields the industry's first one-disk 500GB hard drive lowering storage costs and improving performance.
• Now delivering predicted failure rates of 0.34%, the Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive continues to provide industry-leading reliability.
• Best-in-class environmental specifications and reliability features
• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
• Produced in the most sophisticated and automated manufacturing process in the hard drive industry.
• Best Fit Applications include: Desktop PCs, Workstations, Direct attached external storage devices (DAS),
• Best Fit Applications include: Desktop PCs, Workstations, Direct attached external storage devices (DAS), Network attached storage devices (NAS), PC-based game systems and Home servers
• Customers can feel confident that Barracuda 7200.12 hard drives will deliver the same rock-solid performance and reliability every time.
• Network attached storage devices (NAS), PC-based game systems and Home servers
• Produced in the most sophisticated and automated manufacturing process in the hard drive industry, customers can feel confident that Barracuda 7200.12 hard drives will deliver the same rock-solid performance and reliability every time.
• Seagate technology leadership now yields the industry's first one-disk 500GB hard drive simultaneously lowering storage costs and improving performance.

By now the world knows that Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives, from the world's premier storage provider, deliver years of reliable service and high performance. This is a product family that has been strengthened and refined over 12 generations. It embodies the highest levels of reliability, performance and capacity. And this latest generation is a leader in environmentally friendly storage. The Barracuda 7200.12 drive is an ideal choice for workstations, desktop RAID, gaming PCs, high-end PCs, mainstream PCs and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage. After years of pioneering research at Seagate, perpendicular recording is now a proven technology. It increases capacity and dependability by storing data vertically, rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean increased data density which means higher performance to increase productivity. The Barracuda 7200.12 drive delivers excellent power savings without sacrificing drive or system performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture eco-friendly PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy savings requirements. Seagate hard drives have long been produced with the environment in mind, and not just with low power consumption. With Seagate and the Barracuda 7200.12 drive, our customers can have the best of both world stop hard-drive performance and the satisfaction of knowing they are using a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint.