This generation of Barracuda Series drives offers the best combination of performance, acoustics, and reliability. Count on Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 series drives for reliable, eco-friendly performance in PCs, external servers, workstations, and gaming PCs.

• Sustainable technology for a green world: typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled.
• 12th generation of the world’s most popular desktop hard drive
• Reliable, proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
• 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate

ST3500418AS Specifications
Interface	Serial ATA (3Gb/sec.)
Capacity	500GB
Speed	7,200 rpm
Cache	16MB
Power Requirements	12V ± 10%
Current	Seek 8 W; Idle 5 W
Acoustics	Idle 2.6 bel; Seek 2.75 bel
Average Seek Time	9.5 ms
Average Latency	4.16 ms
Meantime between Failures (MTBF)	750,000
Shock (half sine wave)	Operating 70 G; non-operating 350 G
Temperature	Operating 0°C ~ 60°C; non-operating -40°C ~ 75°C

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