Features

Specs

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

Performance Specifications
• Model Number ST500D002
• Rotational Speed 7,200 RPM (nominal)
• Buffer Size 16 MB
• Average Latency 4.16ms
• Random read seek time <8.5ms
• Random Write Seek time <9.5ms

Physical Specifications
• Capacity 500 GB
• Interface SATA 6Gb/s
• Areal density (avg) 329Gb/in2
• User Sectors Per Drive 976,773,168

Physical Dimensions
English
• Height 0.787 Inches max
• Length 5.787 inches max
• Width 4.000 inches ±0.010 inch
• Weight .925 Pounds ±0.13 pounds
Metric
• Height 19.98 mm max
• Length 146.99 mm max
• Width 101.6 mm ±0.25 mm
• Weight 415g ±0.06 kg

Reliability
Annual Failure Rate <1%

Power
Maximum start current 2.0