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Seagate Barracuda XT Hard Drives

Key Features and Benefits

  • The 7200-RPM performance platform complements high capacity, delivering a powerful combination of extreme storage and top-end desktop performance.
  • A 64-MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks.
  • The SATA 6Gb/s interface enables the use of the industry’s newest and fastest hard drive controllers while providing backward compatibility to legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s systems.
  • Configurable with Seagate® SeaTools™ software—Users can optimize the drive configuration and tune for capacity or performance for the ultimate in customer choice and control.

Key Applications

  • High-performance PC gaming systems
  • High-definition video editing and production systems
  • Home servers and workstations
  • Desktop RAID
  • FireWire 800- or eSATA-enabled external storage devices

Screaming Fast—With Plenty of Room to Grow!

The new Barracuda XT hard drive from Seagate offers customers a compelling new storage choice for high-capacity, high-performance computing solutions.The new Barracuda XT drive is built on a full-speed, 7200-RPM, 4-disk platform. Further turbocharged with a huge 64-MB cache and the industry’s new, high-performance SATA 6Gb/s interface, the Barracuda XT drive is destined to set a new standard for high-speed desktop performance. High-definition content is driving the need for space and speed. Whether on the Internet, in a theater or erupting from a high-powered PC gaming rig, content is getting richer and proliferating around the world. The professionals who develop and produce this content and the consumers who enjoy it find themselves in need of more powerful computing systems to process and store this data. No longer do power users need to compromise when it comes to choosing capacity or speed; the Barracuda XT drive has it all! Discerning high-performance PC users, multimedia development professionals and power users in general will appreciate the capacity, performance and flexibility the Barracuda XT drive offers.

Think Green™ Sustainability

At Seagate, we recognize the importance of building products with a philosophy of sustainability in mind. Business sustainability to deliver leading-edge products that meet customer’s performance, reliability and time-tomarket needs helps keep them competitive. In addition, we strive to achieve these goals using environmentally sustainable processes. The Barracuda XT product does not compromise here either, but delivers leading capacity and performance in accordance with our Think Green programs for RoHS compliance and is an industry leader in advanced recycling programs:
  • 70 percent or more of the materials used in the manufacture of Barracuda XT drives are recyclable.
  • Up to 50 percent of the materials used in the manufacture of Barracuda XT drives come from recycled sources.

Compatibility

Barracuda XT hard drives feature the industry’s newest high-speed SATA interface—SATA 6Gb/s. This provides customers the opportunity to maximize performance as the industry develops controllers, applications and associated architectures to fully exploit this increased interface speed. In addition, Barracuda XT drives are also fully compatible with legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s and SATA 3Gb/s interfaces, giving customers a future-proof hard drive with full backward compatibility.
Specification top
General
Product Line
Barracuda XT
Drive Type
Desktop
Form Factor
3.5 inch
Capacity
3 TB
Interface
SATA III 6-Gbit/s
 
Performance
Rotational Speed
7200 rpm
Cache Size
64 MB
Average Latency
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