Seagate Constellation ES.3 1 TB

A 1000GB 3.5" HDD on the SAS 6.0 Gb/s interface. At roughly $0.08 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 $82.00 it sits in the mid-range drive bracket.

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