Hitachi HUC101212CSS600 1.2 TB

This is a 1200GB 2.5" HDD on the SAS 6.0 Gb/s interface. Sequential throughput tops out at 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 64MB of cache. At roughly $0.07 per gigabyte it sits in the mid-range tier. Expect to pay around $83.99, which lands it among mid-range options.

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