Product Description
Seagate ST3250318AS 250 GB SATA2 7200 rpm 8 MB Hard Drive, Bulk.
From the Manufacturer
Seagate® Barracuda® drives deliver reliable service and high performance. The Barracuda family has been developed and refined over 12 generations and embodies the highest levels of design for reliability and performance. While Barracuda LP is the low power leader, the entire family of Barracuda drives lead with environmental friendly storage. Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used in each drive are recycled as well as being RoHS compliant. With capacities from 160GB all the way to 2TB, and cache sizes up to 64MB, there is Barracuda drive to fit your needs. Whether it’s mainstream PC, high-end PC, gaming PC, desktop RAID or storage for USB/FireWire/eSATA connected external, Seagate offers a Barracuda drive for every need.
Seagate® Barracuda® 3.5-Inch Internal Drive What the experts are saying… Performance and reliability for everyone Working with huge files has never been easier. That’s because the Seagate Barracuda drive is incredibly fast, and offers all the storage space you need. Best of all, Seagate reliability is built in. The Seagate Barracuda 3.5-inch Internal Drive is perfect for replacing or expanding your desktop drive capacity in:
- Desktop PCs and Macs
- Workstations
- Direct- and network-attached external storage devices
- PC-based game systems
- Home servers
Why Choose the Seagate Barracuda drive
- Lowers your storage costs without sacrificing performance
- Gives you all the storage capacity you need, from 160GB up to 1.5TB
- Features a fast 7200-RPM drive that delivers sustained transfer rates of up to 125MB/s
- Delivers the optimum mix of performance and energy efficiency thanks to perpendicular recording technology, a SATA 3Gb/s interface, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), and up to 32MB cache
- Ensures whisper-quiet operation, reduced power consumption and heat generation
- Includes Seagates proven, industry-leading reliability
“First two platter 1TB drive; wicked fast. Beats previous contender easily.” -Maximum PC, July 2009 “Blazing fast speeds, silent, cool, energy efficient” 2009 Editors choice award. -TechTree, April 2009 “Strong performance and noticeably quieter than its predecessor. The Barracuda 7200.12 1TB is more than good enough for an OS drive, but also good bottomless storage for your movies and music.” -PC Authority, September 2009 “Over the period of about 4 weeks of brutal testing, I was unable to find any issues or anomalies in their performance. The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drives appear to be the real deal with solid performance at an excellent price. Club Overclocker Recommended.” -Club Overclocker, March 2009 “The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB hard drive is speedy and offers good value. If you need 1TB of data storage in a single drive, this is worth considering.” -Good Gear Guide, April 2009 “Considering price, performance, and energy efficiency, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB hard drive earns the Bigbruin.com award of “Recommended”.” -Big Bruin, April 2009
How much will it store? Capacity Digital Music
(Hours) Digital Photos
(Files) Digital Videos
(Hours) DVD Quality
(Movies) HD Video
(Hours) 160 GB 2,666 51,200 160 40 40 250 GB 4,165 80,000 250 63 63 320 GB 5,331 102,400 320 80 80 500 GB 8,330 160,000 500 125 125 640 GB 10,662 204,800 640 160 160 750 GB 12,495 240,000 750 188 188 1.0 TB 16,660 320,000 1,000 250 250 1.5 TB 24,990 480,000 1,500 375 375 Average file size using cameras highest resolution JPEG mode Based on standard 2 hour movie Based on H.264 compression at a 6.75Mbs bitrate
Users can expect a performance boost when using Seagate hard drives with Windows 7
- Windows 7 has shown to use fewer hard drive resources for system boot and general OS operations, speeding up overall performance and leaving more storage resources for applications.
- Cache efficiency has improved. Customers who choose Seagate drives with bigger cache options will see added benefit. Seagate testing confirms improved performance from Windows Vista to Windows 7 on like hard drives with only cache size differences.