Seagate BarraCuda 500 GB

A 500GB 3.5" HDD on the PATA 100 interface. At roughly $0.1 per gigabyte it sits in the budget tier. Sequential throughput reaches 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 16MB of cache. Its $48.00 price tag places it squarely in budget territory.

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