The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive combines proven technology and components with industry-leading manufacturing expertise to deliver up to 1 TB of sustainable desktop storage with 32-MB cache. 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 320, 250 and 160-GB—all 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. - Sustainable technology for a green world: o Typically 70 percent or more of the materials used to build the drive is recycled. o 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: o 160-MB/s maximum sustained data rate o 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 320, 250- and 160-GB drives