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.

- Sustainable technology for a green world:
o Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled.
o 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:
o 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate
o 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

Specification

Product
Product id	244047
Brand	Seagate Technology
Partnr	ST31500341AS
EAN/UPC code	ST31500341AS
Features
HDD size	3.5
HDD capacity	1500 GB
HDD speed	7200 RPM
Interface	Serial ATA II
Type	HDD
Storage drive buffer size	32 MB
Write seek time	10 ms
Read seek time	8.5 ms
Average latency	4.16 ms
Start/stop cycles	50000
Mean time between failures (MTBF)	750000 uur
Power
Operating voltage	5 / 12 V
Operational conditions
Operating temperature (T-T)	5 - 55 °C
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 70 °C
Weight & dimensions
Width	101.6 mm
Height	26.1 mm
Depth	146.99 mm
Weight	640 g