Barracuda 7200.11
Eco-friendly, high-performance storage for your digital life.

160 GB • 7200-RPM Performance • SATA 3Gb/s

Key Advantages

  • Delivers 160-GB capacity
  • Ships with the industry's most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
  • Delivers high performance
  • 115 MB/s sustained data rate
  • 8-MB cache buffer
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Idles at only 5.3 watts, enabling customers to build low-power systems
  • Meets strict RoHS environmental requirements
  • Leverages best combination of technology (areal density, PMR) and proven components for volume availability

Best-Fit Applications

  • Gamer PCs
  • Mainstream PCs
  • Desktop RAID
  • USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage

 

Specifications

 160 GB1
Model Number ST3160813AS
Interface SATA 3Gb/s NCQ
Performance
Transfer Rate (MB/sec)
Sustained Internal
Maximum External 		115
300
Cache (MB) 8
Spindle Speed (RPM) 7200
Reliability/Data integrity
Contact Start-Stops 50,000
Annualized Failure Rate 0.34%
Mean Time Between Failures (hours) 750,000
Limited Warranty (years) 3
Physical
Height (in/mm) .374/9.5
Width (in/mm) 2.75/69.85
Depth (in/mm) 3.945/100.2
Weight (lb/g) 0.225/102
  1. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.