Barracuda®XT
No compromise. Speed and capacity for
high-performance desktop systems
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DS1696.2-0909US, September 2009
Specications 2 TB1
Model Number ST32000641AS
Interface Options SATA 6Gb/s NCQ
Performance
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
Conguration/Organization
Heads/Disks 8/4
Bytes per Sector 512
Reliability/Data Integrity
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
Power Management
Startup Current +12 Peak(A, ±10%) 2.8
Seek, Average (W) 7.3
Operating, Average (W) 9.23
Idle, Average (W) 6.39
Environmental
Temperature (°C)
Operating
Nonoperating
5 to 60
–40 to 70
Shock (Gs)
Operating: 2 ms
Nonoperating: 2 ms
63
300
Acoustics (bels – sound power)
Idle
Seek
2.8
3.2
Physical
Height (in/mm) 1.028/26.1
Width (in/mm) 4.00/101.6
Depth (in/mm) 5.787/146.99
Weight (lb/kg) 1.543/700
A New Addition to the Family
The legendary Barracuda®family of hard drives from
Seagate is expanding! As storage becomes more
prolic and a fundamental enabler of the digital
ecosystem, we recognize the need for products tuned
to the unique needs of different computing platforms
and applications. The Barracuda family of desktop
storage options now includes:
•Barracuda LP drives—Engineered specically for
low-power-focused applications, such as direct-
attached external storage or low-power-focused
desktop computing
•Barracuda 7200 drives—The industry standard for
mainstream desktop computing offering a wide range
of capacities and cache options, a core 7200-RPM
performance platform and a standard SATA 1.5Gb/s
and SATA 3Gb/s performance interface
•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.
www.seagate.com
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1 One terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
