The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive delivers excellent power savings without sacrificing performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture eco-friendly PC systems and external storage systems that meet energysavings requirements. The drive combines proven technology with expert manufacturing to deliver up to 1 TB of desktop storage. With the Barracuda 7200.12 drive, our customers can have the best of both worlds—top hard-drive performance and a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint. Seagate is committed to Minimizing the impact of our products and operations on the environment. We have implemented production efficiency measures, such as replacing or renovating less-efficient equipment, resulting in a 20 percent increase in production efficiency on a per-hard-drive basis. In just six months this delivered a savings of 158.93 million kWh, or enough energy to power nearly 15,000 U.S. homes for one year. Seagate also has deployed aggressive waste minimization and recycling programs in facilities worldwide. The Barracuda product family complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) directive that limits the use of hazardous materials in electronic goods.
The Barracuda product family complies with the RoHS directive on hazardous materials.
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Features| Sustainable technology for a green world: | |
| Typically 70 percent of drive materials is recycled | |
| Complies with the RoHS directive | |
| Complies with several non-regulatory restrictions | |
| 12th generation of the world’s most popular desktop hard drive | |
| Reliable, proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology | |
| 1-TB capacity | |
| Delivers high performance: | |
| 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate | |
| Up to 3-Gb/s instantaneous burst | |
| 32-MB cache |
| Model Number: ST31000528AS | |
| Interface: SATA 3.0Gb/s | |
| Cache: 32 MBytes | |
| Capacity: 1 TB | |
| Areal density (avg): 329 Gbits/inch2 | |
| Guaranteed Sectors: 1,953,525,168 | |
| Height (max): 26.1 mm (1.028 inches) | |
| Width (max): 101.6 mm (4.000 inches) | |
| Length (max): 146.99 mm (5.787 inches) | |
| Weight (typical): 622 grams (1.371 pounds) | |
| Spindle Speed: 7,200 rpm | |
| Average latency: 4.16 msec | |
| Random read seek time: <8.5 msec | |
| Random write seek time: <9.5 msec | |
| Annual Failure Rate: 0.32% | |
| Maximum start current, DC: 2.0 amps |

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