Seagate brings over 20 years of trusted performance and reliability to the Seagate BarraCuda 3.5" HDD. Versatile HDDs for all your PC needs bring you industry-leading excellence in personal computing. For over 20 years the BarraCuda family has delivered super-reliable storage for the hard drive industry. Advanced Power Advanced Power modes help save energy without sacrificing performance. SATA 6Gb/s SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance. Seagate Secure Seagate Secure models provide Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) hardware-based data security and deliver an Instant Secure Erase feature for safe, fast and easy drive retirement. They meet NIST 800-88 media sanitization specifications and also support the Trusted Computer Group (TCG) Opal standard. Best-Fit Applications • Desktop or all-in-one PCs • Home servers • Entry-level direct-attached storage devices (DAS) 3.5" BarraCuda Hard Drives Deliver Big for Desktop Rock-solid reliability built on over 20 years of BarraCuda innovation. Versatile mix of capacity and price point options to fit any budget. Multi-Tier Caching Technology for excellent hard drive performance. Multi-Tier Caching Technology All hard drives in the BarraCuda family come equipped with Multi-Tier Caching Technology (MTC). MTC takes your PC to new performance levels, so you can load applications and files faster than ever before. By applying intelligent layers of NAND Flash, DRAM and media cache technologies, BarraCuda delivers improved read and write performance by optimizing data flow.