What Is Barracuda ES.2 Hard Drives

Seagate® Barracuda® ES and ES.2 enterprise drives deliver superior performance, reliability and capacity for all your enterprise nearline applications


Seagate® Barracuda® ES and Barracuda ES.2 enterprise drives deliver superior performance, reliability and capacity for all your enterprise Tier 2 nearline applications. Enabled with Seagate PowerTrim™ technology, Barracuda ES.2 drives provide the best power-to-storage efficiency and the lowest draw on power when the drives are in an idle state.
Barracuda ES and Barracuda ES.2 enterprise drives are designed for RAID and Tier 2 nearline applications where high capacity, high reliability, low power consumption and tolerance to rotational vibration (RV) are primary requirements.
Barracuda ES and Barracuda ES.2 drives are available with a SATA interface. The Barracuda ES.2 drive also comes with an optional dual-ported SAS interface for 100 per cent full duplex and multi-initiator compatibility with a mission-critical SAS host.
Key Features and Benefits
Capacities from 250 GB to 1 TB
Perpendicular recording technology
Highest power efficiency for Tier 2 storage applications at 125 GB/watt and only 8 watts of power (idle) per drive
Superior data integrity with SAS over SATA
RoHS compliant
SATA interface (SAS available on Barracuda ES.2 drive)
High broadband RV tolerance for multi-drive environments
10x improvement in unrecoverable error rate compared to desktop product
5-year limited warranty
Barracuda® ES.2 Hard Drives


The Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 drive comes with a SAS or SATA interface and provides high-capacity, 7200-RPM nearline storage for situations where dollars per GB and GB per watt are primary metrics.
Good For
Multi-spindle high-capacity applications such as nearline, NAS, SAN, RAID, multi-host applications (SAS) and, clustering (SAS)