Opens New Frontiers for System Designers

Purpose-built to meet your demand for affordable, slimmer, fully functional laptop computing solutions. Choose from 500GB and 320GB capacity options. While traditional laptop hard drives offer a z-height of 9.5 mm, the Laptop Thin HDD stands part with a z-height of just 7mm.

Smooth Migration to Advanced Format 4K

With Seagate's SmartAlign technology,1 you get all the benefits of the new Advanced Format 4K sector standard—no utilities and no extra steps needed. Advanced format (AF) drive migration happens automatically in the background, and drive perforance is not affected, unlike the time-consuming utilities required by competitive AF-enabled drives.

Secure Self-Encrypting Drive Options

Seagate delivers on government-grade encryption without any performance degradation, protecting date where it lives—on your drive.

Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal protocol

World's first 7mm SED to ship with FIPS 140-2 validation2
Instant on-the-fly encryption without performance degradation
Instant Secure Erase technology enables fast and easy secure drive retirement
2Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated drives are not available in all models or countries.

Enter Seagate Ingenuity

Seagate Laptop Thin HDD drives leverage current laptop drives in both material and product design to provide the world's first 7mm 2.5-inch form factor drive. The result is affordable, thin storage for entry-level to mainstream laptops, high-end netbooks, thin ultraportables and slim-computing devices.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Model
  • Brand: Seagate
  • Series: BarraCuda 7200.12
  • Model: ST3500418AS
  • Packaging: Bare Drive

     

• Performance
  • Interface: SATA 3.0Gb/s
  • Capacity: 500GB
  • RPM: 7200 RPM
  • Cache: 16MB
  • Average Latency: 4.16ms
• Features
  • Features: Reliable, proven perpendicular magnetic recording technology
  • Usage: For Daily Computing
• Dimensions
  • Form Factor: 3.5"