Hard drive
| Track to track seek time (read/write) |
1 ms |
| Read seek |
8.5 ms |
| Average latency |
4.16 ms |
| Write seek |
9.5 ms |
| Hard drive capacity |
250 GB |
| Hard drive speed |
7200 RPM |
| Hard drive size |
3.5 " |
| Drive device, buffer size |
8 MB |
| Bytes per sector |
512 |
| Hard disk number of heads |
1 |
| Cylinders |
16383 |
| Hard drive interface |
Serial ATA |
Other features
| Drive device, transfer rate |
300 MB/s |
| Recording density |
1413 kbit/inch |
| Track density |
236 |
| Disks included quantity |
1 pc(s) |
| Sustained data rate |
125 MB/s |
Power
| Start-up current |
2 A |
| Power consumption (idle) |
5 W |
Operational conditions
| Operating shock |
70 G |
| Non-operating shock |
350 G |
| Non-operating altitude |
-304.8 - 12192 m |
| Operating altitude |
-304.8 - 3048 m |
Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 250GB
By combining sustainable Seagate technology and components with industry-leading volume manufacturing, the Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive delivers up to 1 TB of green, low-power yet high-performance, desktop storage. This versatile drive family, also available in capacities of 750-GB with 32-MB cache, 500-GB with 16-MB cache and 250-GB with 8-MB cache, is ideal for desktop applications such as workstations, desktop RAID, gaming PCs, high-end PCs, mainstream PCs and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.
Key Features and Benefits
- Sustainable technology for a green world:
- Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled;
- Complies with the RoHS directive;
- 12th generation of the world’s most popular desktop hard drive.
- Ships with the most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology.
- Delivers high performance:
- 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate;
- Up to 3 Gb/s instantaneous burst;
- 32-MB cache on 1-TB and 750-GB drives, 16-MB cache on 500-GB drives, 8-MB cache on 250-GB drives.
