Seagate Desktop HDD Technical Specifications
4TB1 | 3TB1 | 2TB1 | 1TB1 | 500GB1 | 320GB1 | 250GB1 | |
Model Number | ST4000DM000 | ST3000DM001 | ST2000DM001 | ST1000DM003 | ST500DM002 | ST320DM000 | ST250DM000 |
Model Name | Desktop HDD | formerly Barracuda | formerly Barracuda | formerly Barracuda | formerly Barracuda | formerly Barracuda | formerly Barracuda |
Interface Options | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ | SATA 6Gb/s NCQ |
Performance | |||||||
SATA Transfer Rates Supported (Gb/s) | 6.0/3.0/1.5 | 6.0/3.0/1.5 | 6.0/3.0/1.5 | 6.0/3.0/1.5 | 6.0/3.0/1.5 | 6.0/3.0/1.5 | 6.0/3.0/1.5 |
Cache, Multisegmented (MB) | 64 | 64 | 64 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Spindle Speed(RPM) | 5900 | 7200 | 7200 | 7200 | 7200 | 7200 | 7200 |
Special Features | |||||||
Seagate OptiCache Technology | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Seagate Acutrac Technology | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Seagate SmartAlign Technology | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No2 | No2 | No2 |
How Much Will it Store? | |||||||
Digital Music (Songs) Based on 4.096MB song,128kbps bit rate,11:1 audio compression ratio |
1,000,000 | 750,000 | 500,000 | 250,000 | 125,000 | 80,000 | 62,000 |
Digital Photos (Files) Average file size using cameras highest resolution JPEG mode |
819,200 | 614,400 | 409,600 | 204,800 | 102,400 | 65,536 | 51,200 |
HD Video (Hours) Based on H.264 compression at a 6.75Mbs bitrate |
493 | 370 | 247 | 123 | 62 | 39 | 31 |
1One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.2Seagate ships this drive in both 4K- and 512-byte sectors. SmartAlign technology is included on 4K sector drives. Both drives are functionally and physically equivalent. |
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