Seagate BarraCuda XT ST3500511AS 500 GB Hard Drive, 3.5" Internal, SATA

Key Features and Benefits:

• Screaming fast - with plenty of room to grow
  The Barracuda XT hard drive from Seagate offers customers a compelling storage choice for high-capacity, high-performance computing solutions. Further turbocharged with a huge cache and the industry's high-performance SATA 6 Gbps interface, the Barracuda XT drive is destined to set a standard for high-speed desktop performance. High-definition content is driving the need for space and speed. Whether on the Internet, in a theater or erupting from a high-powered PC gaming rig, content is getting richer and proliferating around the world. The professionals who develop and produce this content and the consumers who enjoy it find themselves in need of more powerful computing systems to process and store this data. No longer do power users need to compromise when it comes to choosing capacity or speed; the Barracuda XT drive has it all! Discerning high-performance PC users, multimedia development professionals and power users in general will appreciate the capacity, performance and flexibility the Barracuda XT drive offers.
• Think green sustainability
  At Seagate, Seagate recognizes the importance of building products with a philosophy of sustainability in mind. Business sustainability to deliver leading-edge products that meet customer's performance, reliability and time-to-market needs helps keep them competitive. In addition, Seagate strives to achieve these goals using environmentally sustainable processes. The Barracuda XT product does not compromise here either, but delivers leading capacity and performance in accordance with Seagate's Think Green programs for RoHS compliance and is an industry leader in advanced recycling programs.
• Compatibility
  Barracuda XT hard drives feature the industry's high-speed SATA interface - SATA 6 Gbps. This provides customers the opportunity to maximize performance as the industry develops controllers, applications and associated architectures to fully exploit this increased interface speed. In addition, Barracuda XT drives are also fully compatible with legacy SATA 1.5 Gbps and SATA 3 Gbps interfaces, giving customers a future-proof hard drive with full backward compatibility.