Barracuda XT Features

Barracuda XT drives-The performance leader in the Barracuda family, offering maximum capacity, maximum cache and maximum SATA performance for the ultimate in desktop computing performance Performance, Capacity and Peace of Mind.

• Maximize your system performance with the industry's biggest cache available-64 MB.
• Future-proof your storage with the new SATA 6Gb/s interface, which is fully compatible with legacy SATA controllers while also providing an upgrade path to a host of new SATA 6Gb/s motherboards and hard drive controllers.
• Backed by the Seagate 5-Year Limited Warranty and boasting a massive 2 TB of storage capacity, you can rest easy knowing your Barracuda XT hard drive will provide you with more than ample space and years of worry-free operation.

Key Advantages

• A massive 2-TB drive capacity provides plenty of room for downloading today's space-hungry PC games or up to 45 hours of 1080i, HDDVCPRO-encoded, high-definition video.
• 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^TM software-Users can optimize the drive configuration and tune for capacity or performance for the ultimate in customer choice and control.

Best-Fit 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

Barracuda XT Specifications

Model Number: ST32000641AS

Interface Options: SATA 6Gb/s NCQ

Transfer Rate: Max Ext (MB/s) 600

Sustained Data Rate: OD (MB/s) 138

Cache (MB): 64

Average Latency (ms): 4.16

Spindle Speed (RPM): 7200

Heads/Disks: 8/4

Bytes per Sector: 512

Load/Unload Cycles: 300K

Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read: Max 1 per 10E14

Annualized Failure Rate: 0.34%

Mean Time Between Failures (hours): 750,000

Limited Warranty (years): 5

Startup Current +12 Peak (A, ±10%): 2.8

Seek, Average (W): 7.3

Operating, Average (W): 9.23

Idle, Average (W): 6.39

Operating Temperature (°C): -5 to 60

Nonoperating Temperature (°C): -40 to 70

2 ms Operating Shock (Gs): 63

2 ms Nonoperating Shock (Gs): 300

Idle Acoustics (bels - sound power): 2.8

Seek Acoustics (bels - sound power): 3.2

Physical Height (in/mm) 1.028/26.1

Physical Width (in/mm) 4.00/101.6

Physical Depth (in/mm) 5.787/146.99

Physical Weight (lb/kg) 1.543/700

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