Best-Fit Applications
- Workstations
- Desktop RAID
- Gaming PCs
- High-end PCs
- Mainstream PCs
- USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage
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
- 32-MB cache on 1-TB up to 6Gb/s
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Model Number | ST31000524AS |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
| Cache | 32MB |
| Capacity | 1TB |
| Firmware | JC45 |
| Data Code | 11335 |
| Areal density (avg) | 329Gb/in2 |
| Guaranteed Sectors | 1,953,525,168 |
| PHYSICAL | |
| Height | 26.1mm (1.028 in) |
| Width | 101.6mm (4.000 in) |
| Length | 146.99mm (5.787 in) |
| Weight (typical) | 622g (1.371 lb) |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| Spin Speed (RPM) | 7200 RPM |
| Average latency | 4.16ms |
| Random read seek time | <8.5ms |
| Random write seek time | <9.5ms |
| POWER | |
| Maximum start current, DC | 2.0 |
