By now the world knows that Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives, from the world's premier storage provider, deliver years of reliable service and high performance. The ideal choice for workstations, desktop RAID, gaming PCs, high-end PCs, mainstream PCs and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage. After years of pioneering research at Seagate, perpendicular recording is now a proven technology. It increases capacity and dependability by storing data vertically, rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean increased data density which means higher performance to increase productivity. This drive delivers excellent power savings without sacrificing drive or system performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy savings requirements. Seagate hard drives have long been produced with the environment in mind, and not just with low power consumption. With Seagate and the Barracuda drive, our customers can have the best of both worlds, top hard-drive performance and the satisfaction of knowing they are using a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint.
SATA Devices:
| Model Number | ST500DM002 |
|---|---|
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ |
| Cache | 16MB |
| Capacity | 500GB |
| Bytes per Sector | 4096 or 512 |
| Performance | |
| Cache | 16MB |
| Spindle Speed | 7200rpm |
| SATA Transfer Rates Supported | 6.0/3.0/1.5 Gb/s |
| Random read seek time | <11ms |
| Random write seek time | <12ms |
| Sustained Data Rate, Sequential-Write (MB/s) | 125 MB/s |
| Configuration/Organization | |
| Heads/Disks | 2/1 |
| Bytes per Sector | 4096 or 512 |
| Voltage | |
| Voltage Tolerance, Including Noise (5V) | +10%/–7.5% |
| Voltage Tolerance, Including Noise (12V) | +10%/–7.5% |
| Reliability/Data Integrity | |
| Contact Start/Stop Cycles | 50,000 |
| Load/Unload Cycles | N/A |
| Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read, Max | 1 per 10E14 |
| Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) | 0.34% |
| Power-On Hours | 2400 |
| Power Management | Startup current | 2.0A |
| Operating Mode, Typical | 6.19W |
| Idle Average | 4.60W |
| Standby Mode | 0.79W |
| Sleep Mode | 0.79W |
| Environmental | Temperature | Operating (ambient min): 0 °C Operating (drive case max): 60 °C Nonoperating (ambient): −40 to 70 °C |
| Physical | |
| Dimensions | 19.98 x 101.6 x 146.99mm |
| Weight | 415g |