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Increase the storage capacity of your home server by upgrading it with the Dell ST32000444SS internal hard drive. Manufactured by Seagate as a Dell Enterprise hard drive, the R755K can hold 2TB of data and spins at a speedy 7200RPM. With a low latency of 4.18 ms and a large unit cache size of 16 MB, this drive is suitable for high-traffic servers. The high RPM rate is your defense against slow transfer times. Since Seagate manufactured this internal volume under exacting requirements, it will support PowerEdge servers without any configuration issues.Seagate went the extra step and had the ST32000444SS certified. This means you can use this Seagate volume with Dell's server equipment and never run into firmware errors. The BIOS and UEFI settings on these machines will automatically detect the full size of the volume. This also makes these Seagate drives perfect for use in a storage array. You can connect multiple Dell ST32000444SS drives together and enjoy high-speed data transfer between them. You can even link this volume to a series of other SAS disks and not experience any appreciable drop in performance. It's compatible with a wide variety of Western Digital and IBM connector buses as well as the native Seagate design.Since this 3.5-inch hard drive moves data over an SAS interface, it can easily hit a top data transfer rate of 6GB/s. The SAS interface makes this disk perfect for streaming media services not supported by an existing SATA HDD installation. A few special features increase the volume's reliability, and this can protect you against AVI or MPG corruption while streaming media from this Seagate disk.The convenient form factor makes this SAS disk ideal for any other type of server installation as well. The SAS bus makes it more than fast enough to run an online shopping cart, and you could even serve email from it. Managing an outbox from this SAS disk is easy because all outgoing mail can be stored in a buffer without the need to write it out to disk. The SAS bus will automatically synchronize the buffers to the drive platters before shutdown in order to maintain consistency.Hobbyists and gamers will love the fact that they can use open-source server software with this disk. It's fully compatible with the Unix File System (UFS) and the Berkley Fast File System (BFFS), which means that you can run FreeBSD on it. This gives you the option of streaming games and setting up server code for a LAN party right off your ST32000444SS platters. Since it supports NTFS, you could also use Windows Server software with it. This makes it perfect for working with FPS games that run on the NT core. Gamers who prefer to only play open-source video games will like the fact that it's additionally compatible with all versions of the .ext file system. This allows you to install games and other programs from the Linux repositories right to the disk platter, and then serve them over a Linux-based network.