The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drive comes with a SAS or SATA interface and provides high-capacity, 7200-RPM nearline storage for situations where dollars per GB and GB per watt are primary metrics.
The Barracuda ES.2 drive is the perfect solution for high-capacity enterprise storage applications such as the migration of mission-critical transactional data, from tier 1 to tier 2 (nearline) storage, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are a primary concern. With energy-saving PowerTrim features, superior rotational vibration tolerance and a choice of SATA or SAS interfaces, the Barracuda ES.2 drive provides world-leading technology and value.
The Barracuda ES2 drive is perfect for high-capacity, 7200-RPM nearline storage where dollars/GB and watts/GB are primary metrics. It offers energy-saving PowerTrim features, internal data integrity protection, superior rotational vibration tolerance and a SATA 3.0-Gb/s interface.
Key Features and Benefits
- Perpendicular recording technology for maximum capacity
- 24x7 operation and 1.2 M hrs. MTBF
- Dynamic power saving using Seagate PowerTrim technology
- Broad spectrum rotational vibration tolerance at 12.5 rads/s2
- Error recovery control - quick error resolution to prevent system timeouts
- Workload management to ensure operational reliability
- Quick and robust download with firmware security checks
- Write Same command for efficient RAID initialization
- Idle Read After Write data integrity checking
- 32-MB cache
- Low total cost of ownership
| Specifications |
500GB |
| Model Number |
ST3500320NS |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Cache |
32 MBytes |
| Capacity |
500GB |
| Guaranteed Sectors |
976,773,168 |
| PHYSICAL |
|
| Height (max) |
26.1 mm (1.028 inches) |
| Width (max) |
101.6 mm (4.010 inches) |
| Length (max) |
146.99 mm (5.787 inches) |
| Weight (typical) |
>=530 grams (>=1.168 pounds) |
| PERFORMANCE |
|
| Spindle Speed |
7,200 rpm |
| Average latency |
4.16 msec |
| Random read seek time |
<1.0 msec |
| Random write seek time |
<1.2 msec |
| RELIABILITY |
|
| MTBF |
1,200,000 hours |
| Annual Failure Rate |
0.34 |
| POWER |
|
| Maximum start current, DC |
2.80 amps |
