Product Overview
Barracuda
The highest-capacity drives in Tier 2 nearline,
business-critical storage
1-TB, 750-GB, 500-GB and 250-GB capacities
SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s
Key Features and Benefits
Specifically designed for Tier 2 nearline applications, with one
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terabyte of second-generation perpendicular recording available
on a single, four-platter drive
The industry's highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7
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operation
Seagate
PowerTrim
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™
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consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent over prior
generation of Barracuda ES drives.
Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance provides unrivalled
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performance in high spindle-density systems.
Available with SATA or SAS interfaces
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Full internal IOEDC/IOECC* data integrity protection on SAS models
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Dual-ported, multi-initiator SAS provides full-duplex compatibility
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and a 135 percent average** performance improvement over SATA.
Best-Fit Applications
Storage-hungry business applications
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Network attached storage (NAS)
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Storage area networks (SAN)
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Maximum capacity servers
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Rich media content storage—audio, video, image
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Reference and compliance data storage
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Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape
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Collaboration—email, messaging
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Infrastructure—Web, print, file
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*IOEDC/IOECC on SATA (writes only), IOEDC/IOECC on SAS (both reads and writes)
**Averaged from random/sequential, read/write activities with write cache off
ES.2
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technology dynamically optimizes power
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