Seagate Enterprise Performance 1.2 TB

A 1200GB 3.5" HDD on the SAS 12.0 Gb/s interface. At roughly $0.22 per gigabyte it sits in the premium tier. Sequential throughput reaches 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 256MB of cache. At $269.00 it sits in the premium drive bracket.

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