The 250GB Barracuda ES SATA 3 Gb/s drive leverages unparalleled Seagate enterprise technology to deliver the industry's highest 7200-RPM reliability for 24x7 business-critical applications. Utilizing perpendicular recording technology, the Barracuda ES provides amazing capacities with best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance, ensuring unrivalled performance in high-density applications. A 16MB buffer, 8.5ms average seek times and a 1.2 million MTBF rounds out this drive's enterprise capabilities.