Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB (ST3500413AS)

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. 7,200 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 maximise performance. Maximises hard drive storage densities: Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables new storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometres wide! That is about 500 times smaller than the full stop at the end of this sentence. Green where it counts: Barracuda desktop drives are produced using the most sophisticated manufacturing process in the industry, with a focus on environmental stewardship. Barracuda drives comply with the RoHS directive on hazardous materials and voluntarily restrict halogen compounds. Seventy per cent or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable. Low power consumption PERFECT WHEN YOU NEED TO: Build desktop or all-in-one PCs. Create PC-based gaming systems. Implement a desktop RAID. Outfit direct attached external storage devices (DAS). Build network attached storage devices (NAS) Read less