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With a low-power and energy-efficient design, these Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 Green 5900RPM drives are ideal for both data storage and performance gaming. This drive works with most computers and is compatible with Windows 7 and above, Linux, and OS X Macintosh PCs. The Seagate Barracuda ST2000DL003 drive also runs cool and quiet, conserving energy and giving the drive a longer lifespan. The CC32 firmware also features several advantages that require no additional software or configuration on the part of the user.The Barracuda drive is a full-size 3.5-inch form factor HDD with an SATA 6GB/s interface and 64MB cache size. This supports a high-speed access rate for the very large 2TB SATA drive and delivers low-latency input and output. This is one of the higher speed SATA connections for a hard drive of this size with a matching mounting post layout. This allows it to be added easily to systems with an available 3.5-inch hard drive slot, regardless of the original system's age or the size of other drives in the system.Seagate's SmartAlign technology allows for a seamless transition from the traditional 512-sector format to the Advanced Format (AF) 4K sector design. This eliminates the risk of partition misalignments and performance issues when migrating to this drive from an older legacy system. The AF sector design allows hardware to read from newer, larger hard disks in larger chunks. By doing this, it vastly improves data throughput rates and the speed of the drive while conserving energy. The SmartAlign technology is built into the hard drive and requires no additional utilities, software, or configuration steps at all. Just connect the new 2TB Barracuda to an available SATA 6GB/s port, mount to a slot, and everything's done.The Seagate Barracuda is compatible with any standard external SATA drive enclosure designed for use with 3.5-inch form factor drives. This makes the Seagate Barracuda useful as a backup drive. It can also be used for migrating data and information between different systems. The SATA connection, large cache size, and high RPM combine for fast copying with a large 2TB of hard drive space. A member of the Barracuda Green series, it is also designed to be energy efficient.If you are considering upgrading your HDD, you may be concerned about power usage and ease of installation. Users want to make sure that their power usage will remain contained and that their new hard drive is energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Many users also want to be able to install their new drive themselves. This HDD was designed to ensure that it is accessible, easy to use, and energy efficient. In fact, the drive has the power to exceed customers' expectations in these areas. Power efficiency is a key focus for this entire series of HDDs, and it offers easy plug-and-play installation.