Seagate Barracuda ST3500320NS User Manual

Data Sheet

Barracuda ES.2

High-capacity, business-critical

Tier 2 enterprise drives

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1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB 7200 RPM

SATA 3Gb/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s and SAS 3Gb/s

Key Advantages

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1-TB drive delivers 33 percent more capacity than the

Barracuda ES drive.

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The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive,

designed for 24x7 operation

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Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures

unrivalled performance in high spindle-density applications,

and multi-drive ﬁrmware maximizes system availability.

Seagate^®PowerTrim^™technology dynamically optimizes

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power consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent and by

reducing overall drive power consumption by 20 percent over

prior-generation Barracuda ES drives.

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Choose SAS for the seamless Tier 2 enterprise experience, with

improved data integrity and a 135 percent average performance

boost over SATA. SAS also reduces integration complexity and

optimizes system performance for rich media, reference data

storage and enterprise backup applications.

Best-Fit Applications

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Storage-hungry business applications

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Network attached storage (NAS)

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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