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 250-GB 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;
- 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 250-GB drives.
Products specifications
| Attribute name | Attribute value |
|---|
| Track density | 236 |
| Drive device, transfer rate | 1000 G |
| Recording density | 1413 kbit/inch |
| Sustained data rate | 125 MB/s |
| HDD number of heads | 1 |
| Track to track seek time | 1 ms |
| HDD number of cylinders | 16383 |
| Disks included quantity | 1 pc(s) |
| Weight | 14.6 oz |
| Non-operating shock | 350 G |
| Start-up current | 2 A |
| Width | 4" |
| Depth | 5.79" |
| Height | 0.787" |
| Type | HDD |
| Data transfer rate | 1.695 Gbit/s |
| HDD capacity | 250 GB |
| Storage drive buffer size | 8 MB |
| HDD size | 3.5" |
| HDD speed | 7200 RPM |
| Read seek time | 8.5 ms |
| Write seek time | 9.5 ms |
| Average latency | 4.16 ms |
| Bytes per sector | 512 |
| Plug and Play | Yes |
| Interface | Serial ATA |
| Power consumption (idle) | 5 W |
| Operating voltage | 5 / 12 V |
| Operating altitude | -12000 - 120000" |
| Non-operating altitude | -12000 - 480000" |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 60 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C |
| Operating relative humidity (H-H) | 5 - 95 % |
| Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 5 - 95 % |
| Operating shock | 70 G |