Seagate Barracuda 500GB Hard Disk

Name: Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Brand: Seagate
SKU: ST500DM002
Rating: 4.1 (121 reviews)

Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" SATA 3 7200RPM NCQ 16MB Cache ST500DM002

★★★★★

(121 reviews)

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500GB storage capacity with SATA 6Gb/s NCQ Interface
Barracuda hard drives provide industry-leading reliability
Best-in-class environmental specifications and reliability features
Produced in the most sophisticated and automated manufacturing process in the hard drive industry,
Customers can feel confident that Barracuda hard drives will deliver the same rock-solid performance and reliability every time,* Two Year Warranty

Specifications Overview

Model	ST500DM002
Release Date	November 2011 * First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date.
Capacity	500 GB
Cache	16MB
RPM	7200
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s
Form Factor	3.5"

	Old Name	Current Name	Branding	Data Speed	Port
USB 2.0	USB 2.0	USB 2.0	Hi-Speed USB	480 Mbit/s	diverse
USB 3.0	USB 3.1 Gen 1	USB 3.2 Gen 1x1	SuperSpeed USB	5 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.1	USB 3.1 Gen 2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x1	SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps	10 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x2	USB 4.0 Gen 2x2	USB4 20Gbps	20 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4	USB 4.0 Gen 3x2	USB4 1.0	USB4 40Gbps	40 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4v2	USB 4.0 Gen 4	USB4 2.0	USB4 80Gbps	80-120 Gbit/s	only USB-C

Pros

Reliability
Good performance

Cons

Seagate Barracuda 500GB Performance comparison with similar Hard Disk Drives

(Higher is better)

Seagate Barracuda 500GB Performance

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed

Seagate SkyHawk 8TB ST8000VX0022 (98th)		110%
Seagate 4TB BarraCuda ST4000DM004 (101st)		108%
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB (101st)		108%
Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2TB (103rd)		105%
WD RE4 1TB WD1003FBYX (103rd)		105%
SAMSUNG Spinpoint 1TB HD103SJ (105th)		103%
Seagate Skyhawk 6TB ST6000VX0023 (105th)		103%
WD RE4 500GB (105th)		103%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003 (108th)		101%
Western Digital WD RE4 250GB (108th)		101%
Seagate Barracuda 500GB (110th)		100%
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB WD1002FAEX (111th)		98%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB (111th)		98%
Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB (111th)		98%
WD 300GB VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS (111th)		98%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB ST1000DL002 (111th)		98%
Seagate 12TB IronWolf NAS (116th)		96%
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB (117th)		93%
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB ST31500341AS (117th)		93%
Western Digital Black 750GB (117th)		93%
Seagate Barracuda 250GB (117th)		93%

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Seagate Barracuda 500GB Price/Performance Analysis

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed vs Price

Price-to-Performance Analysis:

Excellent value: 19.5% better price-to-performance ratio than average.
3 products offer better price-to-performance ratio.
Best alternative: Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB offers 74.5% better value priced at $33.

Description

500GB storage capacity with SATA 6Gb/s NCQ Interface
SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
Seagate AcuTrac servo technology delivers dependable performance, even with hard drive track widths of only 75 nanometers
Seagate OptiCache technology boosts overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation.
Best Fit Applications include: Desktop or all-in-one PCs, Home servers , PC-based game systems, Desktop RAID, Direct attached external storage devices (DAS), Network attached storage devices (NAS)