Seagate manual Key Advantages, Best-Fit Applications, Barracuda ES.2, Data Sheet

Data Sheet

Barracuda® ES.2

High-capacity, business-critical

Tier 2 enterprise drives

1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB • 7200 RPM • SATA 3Gb/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s and SAS 3Gb/s

Key Advantages

•1-TB drive delivers 33 percent more capacity than the Barracuda ES drive.

•The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation

•Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high spindle-density applications, and multi-drive firmware maximizes system availability.

•Seagate® PowerTrim™ technology dynamically optimizes

power consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent and by reducing overall drive power consumption by 20 percent over prior-generation Barracuda ES drives.

•Choose SAS for the seamless Tier 2 enterprise experience, with improved data integrity and a 135 percent average performance boost over SATA. SAS also reduces integration complexity and optimizes system performance for rich media, reference data storage and enterprise backup applications.

Best-Fit Applications

•Storage-hungry business applications

•Network attached storage (NAS)

•Maximum-capacity servers

•Rich media content storage—audio, video, image

•Reference and compliance data storage

•Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape

•Collaboration—email, messaging

•Infrastructure—Web, print, file