Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology & industry-leading manufacturing expertise, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive
- the 12th generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family
- delivers 1TB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage. Higher performance. Higher capacities. Lower cost. Barracuda hard drives utilize perpendicular recording technology pioneered by Seagate to deliver the industrys first one-disk 500GB & two-disk 1TB drives. Legendary Barracuda quality. With more than 600 million hard drives installed, the Barracuda family of hard drives is recognized as the de facto standard for desktop storage—and its no wonder. You get the best of both worlds: top performance & the confidence of using a proven, high-capacity hard drive. Barracuda desktop hard drives offer: Benchmark-winning performance Industry-leading reliability Smart Align technology for simple 4K adoption The transition to 4K sector hard drives is upon us. Every manufacturer will make this move to help drive higher capacities & reliability. Seagate Smart Align technology offers the industrys only seamless solution to make this transition a snap! Barracuda drives with Smart Align technology look & act like 512-byte sector legacy hard drives to your host computer. No-hassle adoption of 4K sector hard drives No need for alignment utilities required by other drive PERFECT WHEN YOU NEED TO: Build robust workstations Equip home servers Create PC-based gaming systems Implement a desktop RAID Outfit direct attached external storage devices (DAS) Build network attached storage devices (NAS)