Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB 3.5" SATA300 7200RPM 8MB Cache Internal Hard Drive - ST3250318AS

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250G 3.5" SATA300 7200RPM 8MB Cache Desktop Hard Drive - ST3250318AS

Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading manufacturing expertise, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive—the 12th generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family—delivers 250 GB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage. Designed with industry-leading acoustics and power levels and award-winning Seagate perpendicular magnetic recording technology, the Barracuda 7200.12 drive offers the ideal combination of world-class technology and lowest total cost of ownership.

Applications

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.

• Workstations
• Desktop RAID
• Gaming PCs
• High-end PCs
• Mainstream PCs
• USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage

Features

• 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
• 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