Overview:

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.

Features:

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.

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.

Specifications:

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Specifications for the product series
Product Code	ST1000DM003
Model Number	ST1000DM003
Interface	SATA 6Gb/s
Cache	64MB
Capacity	1TB
Areal density (avg)	625Gb/in2
Guaranteed Sectors	1, 953, 525, 168
PHYSICAL
Height	20.17mm
Width	101.6mm
Length	146.99mm
Weight (typical)	400g
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