Seagate 500GB SATA-II Drive - ST3500320NS

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.

Key Features and Benefits

• Specifically designed for Tier 2 nearline applications, with one terabyte of second-generation perpendicular recording available on a single, four-platter drive
• The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation
• Seagate® PowerTrim™ technology dynamically optimizes power consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent over prior generation of Barracuda ES drives.
• Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance provides unrivalled performance in high spindle-density systems.
• Available with SATA or SAS interfaces
• Full internal IOEDC/IOECC* data integrity protection on SAS models
• Dual-ported, multi-initiator SAS provides full-duplex compatibility and a 135 percent average** performance improvement over SATA.

Reference

Barracuda ES.2 Overview
Barracuda ES.2 Datasheet