Seagate ST380215AS-IM 80 GB

This is a 80GB 3.5" HDD on the SAS 3.0 Gb/s interface. Sequential throughput reaches 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 2MB of cache. At roughly $0.89 per gigabyte it sits in the mid-range tier. At $71.00 it sits in the mid-range drive bracket.

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