Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB Hard Drive
Seagate has a proven track record of consistently delivering reliable products in volume, and the new Barracuda 7200.11 family is no exception. Designed with up to four platters and the only second-generation perpendicular recording technology in the industry, the Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers the ideal balance of world-class technology and value, providing customers with an optimal overall solution. The capacity, reliability and performance of this drive, along with its 5-year limited warranty, ensure the longevity of digital content for years to come.
Key Features and Benefits
- Delivers the industry's highest capacity — up to 1.5 TB of storage (also 320, 500, 640, 750 GB and 1TB)
- Ships with the industry's most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology
- Delivers high performance
- 115 MB/s sustained data rate
- 32-MB and 16-MB cache buffer
- Environmentally friendly
- Consumes up to 43 percent less power during idle than previous products, enabling customers to build low-power systems
- Meets strict RoHS environmental requirements
- Leverages best combination of technology (areal density, PMR) and proven components for volume availability
- Ships with an industry-best 5-year limited warranty
The Seagate Advantage
Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives, from the world's premier storage provider, deliver years of reliable service and high performance. The Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers an unmatched combination of reliability, performance and capacity, and is backed by a 5-year limited warranty. The Barracuda 7200.11 drive is the ideal choice for mainstream PCs, performance PCs, gaming and workstations, desktop RAID and external storage devices.
Additional Features
- Best-in-class environmental specifications and reliability features
- Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload.
- Clean Sweep automatic drive calibration
- Enhanced G-Force Protection™ defends against handling damage.
- Seagate SoftSonic™ motor enables ultra-quiet operation.
Advantages of Perpendicular Recording
After more than ten 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.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Drive — the Eco-Friendly Choice
The Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.11 drive delivers up to 43 percent power savings over the previous desktop generation without sacrificing drive and system performance levels, 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. Like all other Seagate drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 product family complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) Directive — a regulation that limits the use of hazardous materials in electronic goods. Seagate also takes great pride in implementing numerous voluntary material restrictions for the good of the environment.
Seagate is committed to minimizing the impact of our products and operations on the environment, and producing energy-efficient, RoHS-compliant hard drives is just one element of that commitment. Our facilities are operated to be energy efficient and minimize our carbon footprint. For example, Seagate has implemented production efficiency measures, such as replacing or renovating less-efficient equipment, resulting in a 20 percent increase in production efficiency on a per-hard-drive basis. In just six months this delivered a savings of 158.93 million kWh, or enough energy to power nearly 15,000 U.S. homes for one year. Seagate also has deployed aggressive waste minimization and recycling programs in facilities worldwide.
Seagate employees are fully engaged in this environmental commitment and participate in many ways, from innovating eco-friendly hard drives, planting trees at company facilities and identifying eco-friendly manufacturing improvements to car-pooling and telecommuting.
With Seagate and the Barracuda 7200.11 drive, our customers can have the best of both worlds — top hard drive performance and the satisfaction of knowing they are using a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint.
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