Seagate ST3000DM001 Barracuda 7200 RPM 3TB 64MB Cache Hard Drive

Product Specifications

ST3000DM001, Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 3TB 64MB Cache

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

Combining state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading manufacturing expertise, the Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive—the 12th generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family—delivers 320 GB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage. Designed with industry-leading acoustics and low power levels.

Barracuda® hard drives give you what you want.

Count on Barracuda® drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up.

*  7200 RPM performance–from 250GB all the way up to 3TB
*  OptiCache™ technology further exploits big 64MB cache sizes and improved micro processor capabilities
*  SATA 6Gb/s technology to further maximize performance

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. 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 using the standard PC BIOS. Get your free copy to go beyond 2TB today!

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

PERFECT 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)

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

Model Number     ST3000DM001
Interface     SATA 6Gb/s
Cache     64MB
Capacity     3TB
Areal density (avg)     625Gb/in2
Guaranteed Sectors     5,860,533,168
PHYSICAL    
Height     26.1mm (1.028 in)
Width     101.6mm (4.0 in)
Length     146.99mm (5.787 in)
Weight (typical)     626g (1.38 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