The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB HDD (Model ST3250312AS) is a 3.5-inch internal desktop hard drive featuring a 7200 RPM spin speed and SATA 6Gb/s interface
Technical Specifications250 GB Capacity
3.5-inch Form Factor
SATA III 6.0 Gb/s (backward compatible with SATA II 3Gb/s and SATA I 1.5Gb/s) Interface
7200 RPM with Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor Spindle Speed
8 MB multi-segmented cache buffer Cache Memory
Advanced Format (AF) 4K sector simulation (512-byte emulation Sector Format)
Can be used for Desktops, RAID configurations, DAS devices, NAS devices, Gaming PCs, Servers, and USB / FireWire / e-SATA External Storage devices
Performance FeaturesUp to 6 Gb/sec (buffer to host) and up to 125 MB/sec sustained (host to/from drive)
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) Recording Technology
750,000 hours Mean Time Between Failures