Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 1.4 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
- ASIN: B004CCS266
- Item model number: ST2000DL003
By : Seagate
Price : $119.99
You Save : $50.00 (29%)
Product Description
Capacity: 2 TB
From the Manufacturer
Barracuda® Green hard drives from Seagate® save you time. The fastest green drive performance enabled by the industries only 5900 RPM spin speed means the fastest data throughput of and "green" drive on the market. SmartAlign technology means you get the benefits of the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard without the hassles of software alignment utilities required by other drives. SmartAlign makes Seagate Advanced Format hard drives look and act just like they always have. With Barracuda Green you get fast performance, cool quite operation and no-hassle integration. It's the green power drive that won't slow you down.
Seagate® Barracuda® Green
Green Power that won't slow you down
- Fast SATA 6Gb/s interface backwards compatible with SATA 3Gb/s
- High capacity drives up to 2.0TB
- Up to 20% faster than competitive "green" drives
- Features Seagate SmartAlign technology for a simple ; invisible, transition to Advanced Format (4K sector) drives
- Entry Level PCs
- All-in-One PCs
- Slimline / Low Power PCs
- External USB, FireWire, or eSATA storage enclosures
- Network Attach Storage (NAS) solutions
Why choose the Seagate Barracuda Green?
- Up to 20% faster that other green drives with its unique 5900 RPM spin speed
- 2.0TB ; 1.5TB capacities perfect for desktops, external storage, and NAS boxes
- Up to 40% lower power than other 7200 RPM alternatives
- Seagate SmartAlign™ technology provides a transition to 4K sectors without the need for software utilities
Why you need a drive with Seagate SmartAlign technology?
In 2011, all drive manufactures' new drive models will transition to a new standard called Advanced Format. Thus, all customers will be forced to adapt to Advanced Format drives. How you choose to adapt can negatively impact your drive's performance.
- Performance on un-aligned Advanced Format hard drives can drop by 10-25%!
- Alignment software take extra time and extra integration steps
- Seagate SmartAlign technology eliminates the need for alignment software
- SmartAlign technology preserve drive performance
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How much will it store?
Capacity
Digital Music(Hours)
Digital Photos(Files)
Digital Videos(Hours)
DVD Quality(Movies)
HD Video(Hours)
2.0 TB
33,320
640,000
2,000
500
500
1.5 TB
24,990
480,000
1,500
375
375
Average file size using cameras highest resolution JPEG mode
Based on standard 2 hour movie
Based on H.264 compression at a 6.75Mbs bitrate
Barracuda Green - Specifications
Specifications
2TB1
1.5TB1
Model Number
ST2000DL003
ST1500DL003
Interface Options
SATA 6Gb/s NCQ
SATA 6Gb/s NCQ
Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM)
5900
5900
Cache, Multisegmented (MB)
64
64
SATA Transfer Rates Supported (Gb/s)
6.0
6.0
Average Latency (ms)
4.16
4.16
Average Seek, Typical Read (ms)
12
12
Average Seek, Typical Write (ms)
13
13
Power On to Ready (sec)
<10
<10
Configuration/Organization
Heads/disks
6/3
6/3
Bytes per Sector
4096
4096
Voltage
Voltage Tolerance, Including Noise (5V)
+10%/-7.5%
+10%/-7.5%
Voltage Tolerance, Including Noise (12V)
+10%/-7.5%
+10%/-7.5%
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/Unload Cycles (25°C, 50% Humidity)
300,000
300,000
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read, Max
1 per 10E14
1 per 10E14
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)
0.34%
0.34%
Power-On Hours
8760
8760
Limited Warranty (years)
3
3
Power Management
Operating Mode, Typical (W)
5.8
7.15
Idle Mode (W)
4.5
5.0
Standby Mode (W)
0.5
0.93
Sleep Mode (W)
0.5
0.93
Startup Current +12V Peak (A±10%)
2.0
2.0
Environmental
Temperature
Operating (°C)
0 to 60
0 to 60
Nonoperating (°C)
-40 to 70
-40 to 70
Shock (Gs)
Operating: 2ms (°C)
80
80
Nonoperating: 2ms (°C)
300
300
Physical
Height (in/mm)
26.1/1.028
26.1/1.028
Width (mm/in)
101.6/4.0
101.6/4.0
Depth (mm/in)
146.00/5.75
146.00/5.75
Weight (g/lb)
622/1.371
622/1.371
1 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
Barracuda Green - Models
Model Number
Capacity
Interface Options
ST2000DL003 ST1500DL003
2TB 1.5TB
SATA 6Gb/s NCQ SATA 6Gb/s NCQ
Barracuda Green hard drives from Seagate save you time. The fastest green drive performance offered with SmartAlign technology for Advanced Format means your drive performs faster and makes the transition to 4K sector technology a snap! Save energy, go fast and skip the software utilities required by other Advanced Format drives. With Barracuda Green hard drives you get fast performance, cool quiet operation and no-hassle integration. It's the green power drive that won't slow you down.
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DL003
Technical Details
- A unique 5900-RPM speed delivers faster performance than 5400-RPM drives
- Seagate SmartAlign technology provides the benefits of the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard without the hassles - not utilities, no extra steps
- Plenty of capacity for storage-hungry applications
- The SATA 6Gb/s interface and 64MB cache maximize performance, especially in cache-intensive applications
- Best-Fit Applications include: High-capacity desktop storage, Direct Attached Storage devices - USB/Firewire/eSata, Network Attached Storage devices and Windows storage servers, PCs
Customer Reviews
I have bought/sold Seagate drives for 25 years. I have recommended Seagate for most of those years. I am in the storage business and have a lot of direct experience with drives.
The problem I am discovering is a greatly reduced reliability in Seagate 1.5 and 2TB disks. I currently have about a dozen 2TB Seagates in active use. 7 of them are beginning to fail, in under 4,000 hours of use. These are disks which were burned in by certifying them for about 3 days with an intensive read/write pattern, to eliminate early failure disks. In the general disk population, I have also seen a high failure rate. This is unacceptable.
Google performed a study using over 100,000 disks a few years back. Google found statistical differences in failure rates between manufacturers, that they did not publish. They also noted that "enterprise" drives did not result in longer lifespans. They found NO correlation between heavy duty or light duty use in failure. What Google did report was that a handful of SMART parameters could be used to predict drives that would soon fail. Among these are reallocated sectors. Once a drive begins reallocating, they generally fail within 6 months or less. There are SMART utilities which are starting to implement this knowledge and alerting users to predicted failures.
For a long time, Seagate was the premium brand of hard drives, along with Hitachi. They may still be. However, this failure rate on the 1.5 and 2TB drives, in addition to the major firmware flaw on the 1.5TB drives (Many customers lost data on the 1.5TB drives, where drives suddenly failed from a firmware flaw), makes me very cautious on Seagate now.
I am recommending Hitachi for now, they will cost a little more, but until more data is in, be alert if Seagates are installed and perhaps avoid them in servers and mission critical installations. I have no data yet on the 3TB drives.
I purchased four of these to replace four 500gb SATA 2 drives by the same manufacturer in a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ machine. While I cannot attest to the new SATA 3 (6 gb/sec) speeds (the ReadyNAS is SATA 2), the new firmware from Netgear required me to do a factory reset on the device, and upon boot it recognized the new 4k format being used by this drive. After the drives were striped and the volume redundant, I was able to copy about a terabyte of data off my local machine in about 12 hours (with breaks in between).
The new drives run cooler than the old 500's, are amazingly quiet, and fast-- so far I'm quite impressed with their performance (especially with the 64mb cache). While I haven't seen their long-term viability yet, I'm pleasantly surprised by how well they work.
Bjorn3d has a good review of the drive here:
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Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DL003
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