Hitachi Ultrastar C10K900 600 GB

This is a 600GB 2.5" HDD on the SAS 6.0 Gb/s interface. Sequential throughput reaches 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 64MB of cache. At roughly $0.07 per gigabyte it sits in the budget tier. Expect to pay around $43.00, which lands it among budget options.

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