500GB SATA-2 3.5″ 7200RPM 3Gb/s HDD (ST3500320NS)

The Barracuda® ES2 drive is perfect for high-capacity, 7200-RPM nearline storage where dollars/GB and watts/GB are primary metrics. It offers energy-saving PowerTrim™ features, internal data integrity protection, superior rotational vibration tolerance and a SATA 3.0-Gb/s interface.

Key Features and Benefits

– Perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity.
– 24×7 operation and 1.2 M hrs. MTBF.
– Dynamic power saving using Seagate PowerTrim™ technology.
– Broad spectrum rotational vibration tolerance at 12.5 rads/s2.
– Error recovery control – quick error resolution to prevent system timeouts.
– Workload management to ensure operational reliability.
– Quick and robust download with firmware security checks.
– Write Same command for efficient RAID initialization.
– Idle Read After Write data integrity checking.
– 32-MB cache.
– Low total cost of ownership.