The 12th generation Barracuda® hard drive continues a long tradition of Seagate technology leadership resulting in new capacity milestones, faster performance and rock-solid reliability. The drive delivers 500GB-per-disk densities with the fast performance and huge capacities to power today’s storage-hungry applications at prices more affordable than ever!

Available in capacities up to 1TB or as low as 160GB, there is a Barracuda hard drive for every desktop need. With over 600,000,000 Barracuda drives installed, it’s no wonder Barracuda hard drives are recognized as the de facto standard for desktop storage.

Key Features and Benefits

- Seagate technology leadership now yields the industry’s first one-disk 500GB and two-disk 1TB hard drives—simultaneously lowering storage costs and improving performance.
- Now delivering predicted failure rates of 0.34%, the Barracuda hard drive continues to provide industry-leading reliability.
- Produced in the most sophisticated and automated manufacturing process in the hard drive industry, customers can feel confident that Barracuda hard drives will deliver the same rock-solid performance and reliability every time.
- With capacity points of 1TB, 750GB, 500GB, 320GB, 250GB and 160GB, there is a Barracuda hard drive to meet every desktop storage need.

Seagate Desktop HDD ST31000524AS. HDD size: 3.5", HDD capacity: 1 TB, HDD speed: 7200 RPM

HDD size	3.5"
HDD capacity	1 TB
HDD speed	7200 RPM
Interface	Serial ATA
Storage drive buffer size	32 MB
Read seek time	9.5 ms
Write seek time	8.5 ms
Average latency	4.16 ms
Operating voltage	5 / 12 V
Width	101.6 mm
Height	26.1 mm
Depth	147 mm
Weight	622 g
Product colour	Black
Internal	Yes
Data transfer rate	6 Gbit/s
USB powered	No
Recording density	329 kbit/inch