The Seagate Desktop HDD (formerly Barracuda® hard drive) is the industry standard hard drive for mainstream desktop computing, delivering both exceptional reliability and performance. A host of refined technologies helps boost performance further than ever before. The Desktop HDD is perfect for desktop performance towers or all-in-one computers, consumer-grade NAS devices and desktop RAID arrays. In fact, the Desktop HDD gives you one hard drive platform for every desktop storage application. One drive with trusted performance, reliability and simplicity in capacities up to 4TB.

1TB-per-disk technology incorporates 340,000 unique tracks in the width of a single inch. This incredible storage density drives new capacity possibilities and lowers your total storage costs. Perpendicular recording technology increases performance and reliability by aligning the data bits vertically on the disk. Additionally, Seagate OptiCache™ technology helps boost overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation, and Seagate AcuTrac™ technology provides reliable performance, even in tough environments. The free Seagate DiscWizard™ software allows you to install 3TB and 4TB hard drives in Windows, including XP, without UEFI BIOS.

Your no-hassle transition beyond 2TB. Are you worried about moving beyond 2TB? You don't have to. The Seagate DiscWizard™ utility makes this transition a snap: Free software enables Windows machines to utilize drives beyond 2TB Seagate DiscWizard provides you a means to effectively utilize your 3TB and 4TB hard drives.

Maximize hard drive storage densities. Seagate Desktop HDD, 1TB-per-disk technology incorporates 340,000 unique tracks in the width of a single inch. This incredible storage density drives new capacity possibilities and lowers your total storage costs. Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide! That’s about 1/500th the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Best-Fit Applications

• Desktop or all-in-one PCs


• Home servers


• PC-based gaming systems


• Desktop RAID


• Direct-attached external storage devices (DAS)


• Network-attached storage devices (NAS)