Seagate® brings over 20 years of trusted performance and reliability to the Seagate® BarraCuda® SSD.

Take your data to the next level of performance, reliability, and efficiency with the Seagate® BarraCuda® SSD. It’s a perfect fit for ultra thin and ultra small laptops, mini PCs, and desktop PCs that need next-level SSD speed for accelerated applications and multitasking.

Upgrade your PC with the Seagate® BarraCuda® Q5 NVMe SSD and unleash performance speeds up to 50x faster than traditional HDDs. Designed with the latest 3D QLC NAND technology,BarraCuda Q5’s slim M.2 2280 form factor provides optimal compatibility and easy plug-and-play installation.

• • Next-Level Speed
    Unleash the performance of PCIe NVMe speeds that are up to 2.5x faster than SATA SSDs.

• • Effortless Versatility
    Easily upgrade from hard drives with a slim, plug-and-play M.2 2280 NVMe form factor.

• • Robust Reliability
    Take advantage of a 3-year limited warranty, 1-year Rescue Data Recovery Services, 1.8M hours MTBF, and up to 119TB TBW.

• • Upgrade to cost-effective SSD speeds with next-gen 3D QLC NAND.

• • Leverage NVMe SSD speeds that are up to 50x faster than traditional hard drives.

• • Harness high sequential read/write speeds (up to 2400/1800MB/s) for more responsive downloads, installs, and multitasking.

• • Get easy installation and upgrades with a slim M.2 2280 NVMe form factor.

• • Extend battery life with low active power requirements of up to 3.2W.

• • Rely on a robust 3-year limited warranty and 1.8M-hours MTBF.

• • Enjoy added peace of mind with 1-year Rescue Data Recovery Services.

• • Benefit from long-term durability with 119TB total bytes written (TBW).

• • Migrate and clone data from old drives with ease using free Seagate DiscWizard™ software tool.

• • Monitor SSD performance, health, and firmware updates with free Seagate SeaTools™ SSD software tool.

Benefit From SeaTools™
SeaTools™ SSD is our free software that tests and analyzes drives. It is completely data safe and easily installs on your system.

Use it for:

• • Health Monitoring

• • Drive Maintenance

• • Overall Monitoring

Maintain Drive Health
A Rescue Data Recovery Services plan is available for purchase when you register your BarraCuda® drive*. You’ll have access to a global team of world-class data recovery experts in case of unexpected data loss.
* Rescue Data Recovery Services plans are not available in all countries. Please contact your Seagate sales representative for further details.

Best Fit Applications:

• • Desktop upgrades

• • Laptop upgrades

• • Workstation upgrades

• • HDD or HDD swap-out upgrades

Additional Information:

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System Requirements

• • SATA 6Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s port

• • PC with Windows® 10 / 8 / 7

Model Number	ZP500CV3A001
Interface	PCIe Gen3 ×4 NVMe 1.3
NAND Flash Memory	3D QLC
Capacity	500GB
Form Factor	M.2 2280-S2
Performance
Cache	N/A
Spindle Speed	N/A
Bandwidth	128KB Sequential: Reads: Up to 2,300 MB/s Writes: Up to 900 MB/s Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration
Random IOPS	N/A Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration
Reliability/Data Integrity
MTBF	1.8 Million Hours
TBW	Total Bytes Written: 119 TB Written
Power Management
Startup Power	N/A
Power Consumption	Average: 2.2W Idle power PS3: 23mW Low power L1.2: 1.5mW
Environmental
Temperature	Operating: 0 ~ 70° C Storage: -40 ~ 85° C
Compliant Standards	RoHS, S.M.A.R.T., TRIM, Halogen Free
Shock	Non-Operating: 1500Gs (0.5ms)
Acoustics	N/A
Physical
Dimensions (WxHxD)	22.0 x 2.15 x 80.0 mm (0.87″ x 0.08″ x 3.15″)
Weight	7g