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Barracuda

®

 

XT

No compromise. Speed and capacity for  

high-performance desktop systems

 

AMERICAS 

Seagate Technology LLC   920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550

 

ASIA/PACIFIC 

Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd.   7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888

 EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA 

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Copyright © 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. 
Barracuda and SeaTools are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the 
property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard 
of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are 
for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. 
DS1696.2-0909US, September 2009

Specifications

2 TB

1

Model Number

ST32000641AS

Interface Options

SATA 6Gb/s NCQ

Performance

Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s)

600

Sustained Data Rate OD (MB/s)

138

Cache (MB)

64

Average Latency (ms)

4.16

Spindle Speed (RPM)

7200

Configuration/Organization

Heads/Disks

8/4

Bytes per Sector

512

Reliability/Data Integrity

Load/Unload Cycles

300K

Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read, Max

1 per 10E14   

Annualized Failure Rate

0.34%

Mean Time Between Failures (hours)

750,000

Limited Warranty (years)

5

Power Management

Startup C12 Peak(A, ±10%)

2.8

Seek, Average (W)

7.3

Operating, Average (W)

9.23

Idle, Average (W)

6.39

Environmental

Temperature (°C)
  Operating
  Nonoperating

 
5 to 60
–40 to 70

Shock (Gs)
  Operating: 2 ms
  Nonoperating: 2 ms

 
63
300

Acoustics (bels – sound power)
  Idle
  Seek

 
2.8
3.2

Physical

Height (in/mm)

1.028/26.1

Width (in/mm)

4.00/101.6

Depth (in/mm)

5.787/146.99

Weight (lb/kg)

1.543/700

A New Addition to the Family

The legendary Barracuda

®

 family of hard drives from 

Seagate is expanding! As storage becomes more 
prolific and a fundamental enabler of the digital 
ecosystem, we recognize the need for products tuned 
to the unique needs of different computing platforms 
and applications. The Barracuda family of desktop 
storage options now includes: 

  Barracuda LP drives—Engineered specifically for 

low-power-focused applications, such as direct-
attached external storage or low-power-focused 
desktop computing

  Barracuda 7200 drives—The industry standard for 

mainstream desktop computing offering a wide range 
of capacities and cache options, a core 7200-RPM 
performance platform and a standard SATA 1.5Gb/s 
and SATA 3Gb/s performance interface

  Barracuda XT drives—The performance leader in 

the Barracuda family, offering maximum capacity, 
maximum cache and maximum SATA performance 
for the ultimate in desktop computing performance

Performance, Capacity and Peace of Mind

  Maximize your system performance with the 

industry’s biggest cache available—64 MB.

  Future-proof your storage with the new SATA 6Gb/s 

interface, which is fully compatible with legacy SATA 
controllers while also providing an upgrade path to 
a host of new SATA 6Gb/s motherboards and hard 
drive controllers.

  Backed by the Seagate 5-Year Limited Warranty and 

boasting a massive 2 TB of storage capacity, you can 
rest easy knowing your Barracuda XT hard drive will 
provide you with more than ample space and years of 
worry-free operation.

www.seagate.com 
1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283)

1 One terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.

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