Hitachi HGST Ultrastar C10K1800 HUC101830CSS200 (0B28810) 300GB 10520 RPM 300 GB

This is a 300GB 2.5" HDD on the SAS 12.0 Gb/s interface. At roughly $0.33 per gigabyte it sits in the mid-range tier. Sequential throughput tops out at 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 128MB of cache. At $97.99 it sits in the mid-range drive bracket.

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