Seagate 3TB Performance SATA 3 Hard Drive ST3000DM001 7200rpm with 64MB Cache SATA II Compatible

Combining state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading manufacturing expertise, the Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.14 drive—the generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family—delivers 3 TB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage. Designed with industry-leading acoustics and low power levels.

Barracuda hard drives give you what you want.

Key Advantages

Double your capacity and drive down costs with the industry’s first 1TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
Up to 3TB capacity with 7200-RPM performance. Why compromise?
SATA-III 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
Seagate AcuTrac servo technology delivers dependable performance, even with hard drive track widths of only 75 nanometers.
Seagate OptiCache technology boosts overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation.
Seagate SmartAlign technology provides a simple, transparent migration to Advanced Format 4K sectors.
Free Seagate DiscWizard™ software allows you to install a 3TB hard drive in Windows, including XP, without UEFI BIOS.

Best-Fit Applications

Desktop or all-in-one PCs
Home servers
PC-based gaming systems
Desktop RAID
Direct-attached external storage devices (DAS)
Network-attached storage devices (NAS)

Count on Barracuda drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up.

7200 RPM performance–from 250GB all the way up to 3TB
OptiCache technology further exploits big 64MB cache sizes and improved micro processor capabilities
SATA-III 6Gb/s technology to further maximize performance

Maximizes hard drive storage densities.
Barracuda 1TB-per-disk technology incorporates 340,000 unique tracks in the width of a single inch. This incredible storage density drives new capacity possibilities and lowers your total storage costs.
Seagate AcuTrac technology enables new storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide! That’s about 500 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.

Green where it counts.
Barracuda 1TB-per-disk hard drives now have advanced power modes to save more energy while in idle states–without sacrificing performance.
Barracuda desktop drives are produced using the most sophisticated manufacturing process in the industry, with a focus on environmental stewardship.
Barracuda drives comply with the RoHS directive on hazardous materials and voluntarily restrict halogen compounds.
70% or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable.

Your no-hassle transition to 4K sectors.
Are you worried about moving to Advanced Format 4K sector technology? You don’t have to be with Barracuda drives.
Seagate SmartAlign technology makes this transition a snap:

No utilities to run
No extra integration steps to take up your time

Stores Upto 7380 Action Packed Games
Stores Upto 852000 Digital Photo's (6Mpix)
Stores Upto 75000 MP3 Songs
Stores Upto 72000 CD Audio Songs
Stores Upto 228 Hours of Digital Video (DV)
Stores Upto 1200 Hours of DVD Quality Video
Stores Upto 360 Hours of HD/BD Quality Video