The Power of One

Barracuda hard drives give you the Power of One. One hard drive platform for every desktop storage application. One drive with trusted performance, reliability and simplicity and capacity.

Please Note: Windows XP will detect a 3TB drive as 800GB.  To access the full capacity of the drive, you must install DiscWizard v13 or newer available from Seagate at:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/218619en

Barracuda® Drives Give You What You Want.
Count on Barracuda® drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up.

• 1TB-per-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
• SATA 6Gb/s maximizes data transfer rates

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.

Green Where It Counts.
Barracuda® 1TB-per-disk hard drives now have advanced power modes to save more energy while in idle states–without sacrificing performance.

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
• 70% or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable
• Low power consumption

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

Go Beyond 2TB With DiscWizard™ Software.
The sure way to get native access to hard drives bigger than 2TB is to adopt the new BIOS standard called UEFI - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.

If you're not there yet, Seagate has an alternative: Free DiscWizard™ software from Seagate provides you a means to effectively utilize your 3TB Barracuda® drive, even with Windows® XP and even using using the standard PC BIOS.

Get your free copy to go beyond 2TB today!

This 3TB Barracuda® Hard Drive Also Provides These Key Features:

• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 600MB per second)
• TGMR recording technology provides the drives with increased areal density
• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms
• Native Command Queueing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications
• Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without local processor intervention
• Quiet operation
• Compliant with RoHS requirements in China and Europe
• SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting
• Supports latching SATA cables and connectors
• Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive

Barracuda® Drives Are The Perfect Solution 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)