Barracuda ES
The Seagate Barracuda ES is Seagate's answer to anyone's insatiable need for capacity in an enterprise environment. It is essentially the highest-capacity enterprise drive in Seagate's arsenal.
Naturally, it's targeted at applications like Network Attached Storage (NAS), enterprise backup and restore and other storage-hungry applications.
The Barracuda ES makes use of Perpendicular Recording technology in the SATA version to achieve its amazing capacity, while integrating enterprise multi-drive firmware features and best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance to offer the highest reliability 7200 RPM drive for enterprise applications.
The new Barracuda ES drives is now available with capacities ranging from 250GB to 750GB. While SATA 3Gb/s is available for all capacities, 2Gb/s Fibre Channel is also available, albeit for only the 400GB and 500GB capacities.
Here is a list of its key features :
- Highest-capacity drives in the market
- Highest-reliability 7200 RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operations
- Serial ATA interface available for all capacities
- Fibre Channel interface available for 400GB and 500GB capacities
- Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance, which allows deployment in high-density, closely-packed system designs
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Current Models |
ST3750640NS (750 GB, SATA 3Gb/s, 16 MB cache) |
Form Factor |
3.5" |
Supported Interface |
3 Gbit/s Serial ATA |
Interface Ports |
Single (SATA) |
Dimensions |
26.11 mm / 1.02 inches tall |
Weight |
720 g (SATA), 726 g (FC) |
Spindle Speed |
7,200 RPM |
Rated Capacities |
250 GB |
Cache |
16 MB (all SATA drives, except for one 250GB model) |
Average Latency |
4.16 ms |
Average Seek Times |
8.5 ms (Read) |
Track-to-Track Seek Times |
0.8 ms (Read) |
Maximum Internal Transfer Rate |
128.75 MB/s (SATA) |
Maximum Sustained Transfer Rate |
78 MB/s (750 GB SATA model only) |
Typical Power Consumption |
13.0 W (SATA) |
Idle Power Consumption |
9.3 W (SATA) |
Non-Recoverable Read Errors Per Bits Read |
1 sector per 1014 |
Error Control / Correction |
10-bit (SATA) |
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) |
0.73 % (at full 24x7 operation) |
Warranty |
5 years |
Temperature |
5 to 55 °C (Operating) |
Shock |
63 Gs @ 2 ms (Operating) |
Idle Acoustics |
2.7 bels (750 GB SATA model) |
Rotational Vibration |
12.5 Rad/sec2 |