Seagate Constellation ES 500 GB 7200RPM SAS 2.0 6Gb/s 16 MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500414SS - Bare Drive

by Seagate

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 5.8 x 1 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003IT70LC
• Item model number: ST3500414SS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Capacity: 500 GB

From the Manufacturer

The fourth-generation, 3.5-inch Seagate® Constellation™ ES drive for enterprise 7200-RPM environments enables cost-effective, highly efficient storage with the highest capacities, best-in-class reliability, leading 6Gb/s SAS performance, optimized power and cooling, and optional government-grade security, all backed by Seagate enterprise service and support. The 2TB capacity can store an unprecedented 76TB per square foot, maximizing floor space at the lowest $/GB. With the lowest power consumption and highest temperature tolerance for a 3.5 inch enterprise drive, the Constellation ES drive optimizes chassis performance in tiered storage solutions. It is the only drive offering a choice of traditional SATA 3Gb/s interface for seamless integration, or the industry-leading 6Gb/s SAS interface for a more reliable, scalable and sustainable high-performance enterprise solution.

Seagate® Constellation™ ES

What the experts are saying...

Enterprise-class 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive The Seagate Constellation ES is the perfect 3.5-inch drive for environments that require highly efficient, reliable and secure storage that delivers seamless enterprise integration, including: High-capacity servers and external storage Storage area networks (SAN) Network attached storage (NAS) Direct attached storage (DAS) Enterprise backup and restore (D2D, virtual tape) Centralized surveillance Cloud storage Why Choose Seagate Constellation ES? Reduces design and support costs by building on Seagate's best-in-class enterprise storage foundation Features the maximum capacity available-up to 2TB-in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class drive Reduces energy and cooling costs, with the lowest power consumption of any nearline 3.5-inch drive Delivers proven reliability, with an MTBF* of 1.2 million hours Delivers dramatically increased storage scalability and data integrity with 6Gb/s SAS or an enterprise SATA 3Gb/s interface Offers a Self-Encrypting Drive option for government-grade data security** * Mean Time Between Failures **Self-Encrypting SAS models require TCG-compliant host or controller support

“What if I told you that you could have Velociraptor level performance (and more) with almost seven times the capacity? Seagate's Constellation Hard Drive fits that bill to a T. It Outperforms the Velociraptor by almost 20mb/s on maximum read performance, and with 2TB of space it puts the 300GB capacity of the Velociraptor to shame.” - Lanoc Reviews, January 2010 “I personally think that Seagate is on the right track with Constellation ES series and i am sure this is not the end of the Enterprise line for Seagate. Great fast drives and great performance. 9/10!” - Umlan, January 2010

	"Rorke Data's HD video and 3D film post production customers need both the increased capacity and the 6Gb/s SAS performance of the Constellation™ ES drives to meet their growing needs, especially in the world of 3D. Our Galaxy® Aurora RAID systems take full advantage of the high-capacity Constellation™ ES drive by packing 72TB in under 9 inches of rack space while delivering sustained transfer rates of 3300MB/s," - Joe Rorke, vice president of marketing, Rorke Data

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Constellation ES Drive Specifications

Specifications	SAS 2.0			SATA
	2 TB1	1 TB1	500 GB1	2 TB1	1 TB1	500 GB1
Model Number	ST32000444SS ST32000445SS2	ST31000424SS ST31000425SS2	ST3500414SS ST3500415SS2	ST32000644NS	ST31000524NS	ST3500514NS
Interface	6Gb/s SAS, 3GB/s SAS	6Gb/s SAS, 3GB/s SAS	6Gb/s SAS, 3GB/s SAS	SATA 3GB/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s	SATA 3GB/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s	SATA 3GB/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s
Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Government Grade Security	Yes	Yes	Yes	-	-	-
Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM)	7200	7200	7200	7200	7200	7200
Seek Time
Average Read/Write (ms)	8.5/9.5	8.5/9.5	8.5/9.5	8.5/9.5	8.5/9.5	8.5/9.5
Track-to-Track Read/Write (ms)	0.5/0.8	0.5/0.8	0.5/0.8	0.5/0.8	0.5/0.8	0.5/0.8
Maximum Sustained Transfer Rate (MB/s)	150	150	150	140	140	140
Cache, Multisegmented (MB)	16	16	16	64	32	32
Configuration/Organization
Bytes per Sector	512, 520, 524, 528	512, 520, 524, 528	512, 520, 524, 528	512	512	512
Reliability/Data Integrity
Power-On Hours (annual)	8760	8760	8760	8760	8760	8760
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours)	1.2 million	1.2 million	1.2 million	1.2 million	1.2 million	1.2 million
Reliability Rating at Full 24x7 Operation (AFR)	0.73%	0.73%	0.73%	0.73%	0.73%	0.73%
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15	1 per 10E15
IOEDC (I/O Error Dectection Code)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IOECC (I/O Error Correction Code)	Reads/Writes	Reads/Writes	Reads/Writes	Writes	Writes	Writes
Load/Unload Cycles (at 40°C)	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000
Interface Ports	Dual	Dual	Dual	Single	Single	Single
Limited Warranty (years)	5	5	5	5	5	5
Power Management
Power Supply Requirements	+12V and +5V	+12V and +5V	+12V and +5V	+12V and +5V	+12V and +5V	+12V and +5V
Idle(W)	8.0	6.0	5.6	7.0	5.0	4.6
Typical Operating Power, Random Read (W)	12.2	10.8	10.4	11.2	9.8	9.4
Typical Operating Power, Random Write (W)	11.2	9.6	9.2	10.2	8.6	8.2
PowerChoice™ option, 1 to 4 range (W)	As low as 1.26	As low as 1.30	As low as 1.28	As low as 0.53	As low as 0.57	As low as 0.55
Environmental
Rotational Vibration @ 1800 Hz (rad/sec2)	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5	12.5
Shock (Gs)
Operating: 2 ms (Gs)	70	70	70	70	70	70
Nonoperating: 1 ms and 2ms (Gs)	300	350	350	300	350	350
Temperature (°C)
Operating	5 to 60	5 to 60	5 to 60	5 to 60	5 to 60	5 to 60
Nonoperating	-40 to 70	-40 to 70	-40 to 70	-40 to 70	-40 to 70	-40 to 70
Acoustics Idle(bels, typlical)	2.7	2.2	1.9	2.7	2.2	1.9
Physical
Height (in/mm)	1.028/26.1	1.028/26.1	1.028/26.1	1.028/26.1	1.028/26.1	1.028/26.1
Width (in/mm)	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6	4.0/101.6
Depth (in/mm)	5.787/146.99	5.787/146.99	5.787/146.99	5.787/146.99	5.787/146.99	5.787/146.99
Weight (lb/kg)	1.565/0.71	1.411/0.64	1.345/0.61	1.543/0.70	1.344/0.61	1.289/0.585

1 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
2 SED option for SAS models only. Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support.

Product Description

Constellation ES - High-capacity storage designed for seamless enterprise integration

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Enterprise Drive, December 4, 2011

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Allan Jude "Clancy Fan" (Hamilton, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate Constellation ES 7200.1 2 TB 7200 RPM SAS 2.0 6 GB/s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Hard Drive - ST32000444SS (Personal Computers)

We bought 9 of these (8 in RAID Z2 (like RAID 6) and a cold spare) for a ZFS file server built. With 12TB of usable, double redundant storage, we were extremely pleased. Performance is as expected, linear read and write speeds as advertised approaching 150 megabytes/sec. Even with the overhead of RAID Z2, we get write speeds over 600 megabytes/sec to our array.

5.0 out of 5 stars No problems, November 29, 2011

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James P. Curtis "Jim Curtis" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate Constellation ES 7200.1 2 TB 7200 RPM SAS 2.0 6 GB/s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Hard Drive - ST32000444SS (Personal Computers)

I put 8 of these in my Enhance Box RAID enclosure using an ATTO R680 controller. I have the RAID control do a Media Scan with Verify every night. So far, 338 scans with no errors. I can't think of a downside. I bought these for video editing, so I do a lot of reads and writes. I bought an additional drive as a spare, and it looks like that was unnecessary. Priced right. Quality product.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As advertised and very prompt delivery. I am pleased!, June 30, 2011

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Eddie - See all my reviews

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The product was as advertised and delivery was days ahead of schedule. The drives have not been installed yet, but I do not expect there to be any issues.

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