Seagate ST500DM002 Barracuda 7200 RPM 500GB Desktop Hard Drive

Product Specifications

ST500DM002, Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 500GB 16MB Cache

Product Range Features (Actual Product Features May Differ - Zaps)

Higher performance. Higher capacities. Lower cost.

Barracuda® hard drives utilize perpendicular recording technology pioneered by Seagate® to deliver the industry's first one-disk 500GB and two-disk 1TB drives.
Legendary Barracuda® quality.

With more than 600 million hard drives installed, the Barracuda® family of hard drives is recognized as the de facto standard for desktop storage—and it's no wonder. You get the best of both worlds: top performance and the confidence of using a proven, high-capacity hard drive. Barracuda desktop hard drives offer:

*  Benchmark-winning performance
*  Industry-leading reliability

SmartAlign™ technology for simple 4K adoption

The transition to 4K sector hard drives is upon us. Every manufacturer will make this move to help drive higher capacities and reliability.

Seagate SmartAlign™ technology offers the industry's only seamless solution to make this transition a snap! Barracuda drives with SmartAlign™ technology look and act like 512-byte sector legacy hard drives to your host computer.

*  No-hassle adoption of 4K sector hard drives
*  No need for alignment utilities required by other drives

The perpendicular recording advantage.

Barracuda® drives feature fourth-generation Seagate® perpendicular recording technology.

Perpendicular recording is advanced technology pioneered and proven by Seagate to help you do more by storing data bits vertically, greatly increasing data density on the disk.

Increased data density means higher performance, better reliability and lower costs per gigabyte of storage.
Proven quality and performance.

Barracuda® drives have become the world's most popular family of hard drives with consistent quality, performance-enhancing innovations and features like native command queuing and perpendicular recording.

Additionally, the legendary family of Barracuda® desktop hard drives is produced using the most sophisticated manufacturing process in the industry, with a focus on environmental stewardship.

- Up to 50% of the materials used in the manufacture of Barracuda drives come from recycled sources.

- 70% or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable
PERFECT WHEN YOU NEED TO:

*  Build robust workstations
*  Equip home servers
*  Create PC-based gaming systems
*  Implement a desktop RAID
*  Outfit direct attached external storage devices (DAS)
*  Build network attached storage devices (NAS)

Product Range Specifications (Actual Product Specifications May Differ - Zaps)

Model Number     ST500DM002
Interface     SATA 6Gb/s
Cache     16MB
Capacity     500GB
Areal density (avg)     329Gb/in2
Guaranteed Sectors     976,773,168
PHYSICAL    
Height     19.98mm (0.787 in)
Width     101.6mm (4.000 in)
Length     146.99mm (5.787 in)
Weight (typical)     415g (0.925 lb)
PERFORMANCE    
Spin Speed (RPM)     7200 RPM
Average latency     4.16ms
Random read seek time     <8.5ms
Random write seek time     <9.5ms
RELIABILITY    
Annual Failure Rate     <1%
POWER    
Maximum start current, DC     2.0