ST500DM005 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive

About Seagate Desktop HDD Spinpoint 500GB, 3.5", 500 GB, 7200 RPM

Seagate Desktop HDD Spinpoint 500GB. HDD size: 3.5", HDD capacity: 500 GB, HDD speed: 7200 RPM

The Power of One.
The Barracuda® hard drive gives you one hard drive platform for every desktop storage application. One drive with trusted performance, reliability, simplicity and capacity.
- 1TB/disk 7200 RPM platform provides affordable capacity up to 3TB;
- Seagate OptiCache™ technology improves performance by up to 45%;
- Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables reliable read/write performance even in high touch operating environments;
- Seagate SmartAlign™ technology for no-hassle transition to Advanced Format 4K sector technology;
- Free DiscWizard™ software enables 3TB drive use on legacy PC BIOS as well as Windows XP-based systems.

Barracuda hard drives give you what you want.
Count on Barracuda drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up.
- 7200 RPM performance–from 250GB all the way up to 3TB;
- OptiCache™ technology further exploits big 64MB cache sizes and improved micro processor capabilities;
- SATA 6Gb/s technology to further maximize performance.

Your no-hassle transition to 4K sectors.
Are you worried about moving to Advanced Format 4K sector technology? You don’t have to be with Barracuda drives. Seagate SmartAlign™ technology makes this transition a snap:
- No utilities to run;
- No extra integration steps to take up your time.

Maximizes hard drive storage densities.
Barracuda 1TB-per-disk technology incorporates 340,000 unique tracks in the width of a single inch. This incredible storage density drives new capacity possibilities and lowers your total storage costs.
Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables new storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide! That’s about 500 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.

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