---
product_id: 5425586
title: "Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3500413AS"
brand: "seagate"
price: "VT18637"
currency: VUV
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 10
category: "Seagate"
url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/5425586-seagate-barracuda-7200-12-500-gb-7200rpm-sata-6gb-s
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region: Vanuatu
---

# 7200 RPM speed 500GB capacity SATA 6Gb/s interface Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3500413AS

**Brand:** seagate
**Price:** VT18637
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate your setup with Seagate’s powerhouse storage — don’t get left behind!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 16MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3500413AS by seagate
- **How much does it cost?** VT18637 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/5425586-seagate-barracuda-7200-12-500-gb-7200rpm-sata-6gb-s)

## Best For

- seagate enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted seagate brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Massive 500GB Storage:** Store your entire digital life with ease and speed.
- • **Rock-Solid Reliability:** Industry-leading 0.34% failure rate means your data stays safe.
- • **Eco-Friendly Efficiency:** Power-saving design that aligns with your green tech values.
- • **Blazing 7200 RPM Performance:** Experience rapid data access that keeps up with your workflow.
- • **Next-Gen SATA 6Gb/s Interface:** Seamless, high-bandwidth connectivity for modern systems.

## Overview

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 is a 500GB internal hard drive featuring a fast 7200 RPM spindle speed and a SATA 6Gb/s interface with NCQ and 16MB cache. Designed for desktops, workstations, NAS, and gaming rigs, it offers industry-leading reliability with a low failure rate of 0.34%, energy-efficient operation, and comes with a two-year warranty. Its advanced perpendicular recording technology boosts data density and performance, making it a trusted choice for professionals seeking dependable, high-capacity storage.

## Description

By now the world knows that Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives, from the world's premier storage provider, deliver years of reliable service and high performance. This is a product family that has been strengthened and refined over 12 generations. It embodies the highest levels of reliability, performance and capacity. And this latest generation is a leader in storage. The Barracuda 7200.12 drive is an ideal choice for workstations, desktop RAID, gaming PCs, high-end PCs, mainstream PCs and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage. After years of pioneering research at Seagate, perpendicular recording is now a proven technology. It increases capacity and dependability by storing data vertically, rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean increased data density which means higher performance to increase productivity. The Barracuda 7200.12 drive delivers excellent power savings without sacrificing drive or system performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy savings requirements. Seagate hard drives have long been produced with the environment in mind, and not just with low power consumption. With Seagate and the Barracuda 7200.12 drive, our customers can have the best of both world stop hard-drive performance and the satisfaction of knowing they are using a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint.

Review: So Far, So Good. - I have to say I was very nervous about buying this. So many buyers reporting so many problems with hard disk drives from practically all manufacturers. Some of the manufacturer explanations about rough transport seemed plausible, but too often used as the go to reason. They cannot all have been handled by the Samsonite Gorilla. Mine came in the Seagate cardboard box with the anti impact plastic caps at each end. The Seagate box was inside another larger cardboard box containing other items I ordered. I intentionally did not order the drives one by themselves in order to force there to be another box and packaging around the Seagate box. The drives were in anti-static bags. So my out of box experience was excellent. I ground strapped my right wrist and my right ankle to true electrical ground and also electrically grounded my system box. Three of these are in my pc. I also have a fourth in a Thermaltake Max 5 eSATA external drive enclosure hooked to my SetTop cable box DVR for overflow of TV programs. The pc based drives get moderate use. The DVR setup is used a little more than the PC, but only a few hours a day. Honestly, there's not that much on TV worth watching. :-) All of the drives so far have been reliable, quiet, no complaints whatsoever. On the PC they are very fast. If you can get one on sale, they are relatively obsolete now, it is worth the try if it has not been abused. Handle with care and use ground straps and true grounds. Recommended even though it is older. I would buy again if needed. If no longer available I would try the Constellation 3 3.5 series because they have a bigger cache. 5 Star for me. Hope they work for you too.
Review: Trouble-free replacement to One of Five DOA Problem - This was an exact model replacement to an identical model drive that failed to initialize and S.M.A.R.T. This replacement drive has had no issues and is running fine in a Synology DS1511+ NAS with four other identical model drives. They are fast and quiet. desertcart's RMA process is the best. I simply chose to return a drive as part of the options on my order. I was able to print a pre-paid UPS return label and desertcart simultaneously shipped this replacement drive. I got the replacement drive two days before UPS tracking showed desertcart received the faulty one. I suppose this is as much a review of desertcart's RMA process as it is the product itself. I am happy with both. From what I can tell in these reviews, many people will have to RMA the hard drives. Seagate has an above average policy for warranty, but if the problem happens within desertcart's return policy it is that much easier to take care of. You should definitely get the product out of the box and burning-in on a system ASAP to expose any problems.

## Features

- Seagate technology yields the industry's first one-disk 500GB hard drive lowering storage costs and improving performance.
- Now delivering predicted failure rates of 0.34%, the Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive continues to provide industry-leading reliability.
- Best-in-class environmental specifications and reliability features
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- Produced in the most sophisticated and automated manufacturing process in the hard drive industry.
- Best Fit Applications include: Desktop PCs, Workstations, Direct attached external storage devices (DAS),
- Network attached storage devices (NAS), PC-based game systems and Home servers
- Customers can feel confident that Barracuda 7200.12 hard drives will deliver the same rock-solid performance and reliability every time, * Two Year Warranty

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B004TLIEHC |
| Best Sellers Rank | #893 in Internal Hard Drives #12,155 in Computer Internal Components |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (403) |
| Date First Available | January 12, 2011 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 3.56 ounces |
| Item model number | ST3500413AS |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Seagate |
| Product Dimensions | 5.75 x 3.98 x 0.79 inches |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Seagate
- **Color:** Green
- **Compatible Devices:** Camera
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 500 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** Serial ATA
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Not_Performance_Used

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So Far, So Good.
*by B***R on January 26, 2013*

I have to say I was very nervous about buying this. So many buyers reporting so many problems with hard disk drives from practically all manufacturers. Some of the manufacturer explanations about rough transport seemed plausible, but too often used as the go to reason. They cannot all have been handled by the Samsonite Gorilla. Mine came in the Seagate cardboard box with the anti impact plastic caps at each end. The Seagate box was inside another larger cardboard box containing other items I ordered. I intentionally did not order the drives one by themselves in order to force there to be another box and packaging around the Seagate box. The drives were in anti-static bags. So my out of box experience was excellent. I ground strapped my right wrist and my right ankle to true electrical ground and also electrically grounded my system box. Three of these are in my pc. I also have a fourth in a Thermaltake Max 5 eSATA external drive enclosure hooked to my SetTop cable box DVR for overflow of TV programs. The pc based drives get moderate use. The DVR setup is used a little more than the PC, but only a few hours a day. Honestly, there's not that much on TV worth watching. :-) All of the drives so far have been reliable, quiet, no complaints whatsoever. On the PC they are very fast. If you can get one on sale, they are relatively obsolete now, it is worth the try if it has not been abused. Handle with care and use ground straps and true grounds. Recommended even though it is older. I would buy again if needed. If no longer available I would try the Constellation 3 3.5 series because they have a bigger cache. 5 Star for me. Hope they work for you too.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Trouble-free replacement to One of Five DOA Problem
*by L***Y on February 17, 2012*

This was an exact model replacement to an identical model drive that failed to initialize and S.M.A.R.T. This replacement drive has had no issues and is running fine in a Synology DS1511+ NAS with four other identical model drives. They are fast and quiet. Amazon's RMA process is the best. I simply chose to return a drive as part of the options on my order. I was able to print a pre-paid UPS return label and Amazon simultaneously shipped this replacement drive. I got the replacement drive two days before UPS tracking showed Amazon received the faulty one. I suppose this is as much a review of Amazon's RMA process as it is the product itself. I am happy with both. From what I can tell in these reviews, many people will have to RMA the hard drives. Seagate has an above average policy for warranty, but if the problem happens within Amazon's return policy it is that much easier to take care of. You should definitely get the product out of the box and burning-in on a system ASAP to expose any problems.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buyer Beware -- This IS a "bare" drive!
*by Z***D on August 7, 2011*

Before buying this drive, you should know that it is TRULY a "bare" drive. There are no connecting cables, manual, or anything else other than the physical drive itself. To install the drive you will need the SATA data cable, an appropriate power connection inside the box (or a Y splitter), and a good working knowledge of the drive initialization process for your operating system. That being said, once installed and configured, the drive works flawlessly. It is quick, quiet and (so far) dependable. It is also a very good value for the price, especially with Amazon's prompt return policy if you happen to get the rare lemon. If you have the cables and know what you're doing, I would definitely recommend this product. I have always had good experiences with Seagate drives, and this one strikes a nice balance between speed, capacity and price.

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