Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive with 1000GB capacity

Seagate, known for its reliable hard drives, now manufactures hard drives that are eco-friendly in nature. Apart from capability and performance the 12-generation drives of barracuda family proved to consume power, creating environmental friendly systems. Seagate barracuda 7200.12 family consists of hard drives whose capacities range from 1000GB, 750GB, 500GB, 320GB, 250GB and 160GB. All these drives have their unique performance and ability to save power. This 7200.12 family hard drives offer performance, capacity and reliability with good combination. The pros and cons of Seagate barracuda 7200.12 hard drive with 1000GB capacity is reviewed in this article.

Specifications of barracuda 7200.12 1000GB hard drive:

The 7200.12 1000GB drive has a 3GB/s SATA interface with NCQ. It has a cache memory of 32MB and it has the ability to work with sustained data rate of 125MB/s. The maximum throughput rate of this barracuda can sustain up to 126 to 131MB/s, which makes this barracuda the first hard drive to achieve this speed with 1000GB capacity and spindle speed of 7200 rpm. The acoustic output of this drive is 2.5 bels and 2.7 bels during idle and seeks situations respectively. Combining all these specification, the barracuda 7200.12 1000GB delivers high performance than its rivals.

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