Seagate Desktop HDD 7200.12 SATA 250GB 3.5" Serial ATA

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.