Western Digital AV 500 GB

This is a 500GB 3.5" HDD on the PATA 100 interface. At roughly $0.2 per gigabyte it sits in the mid-range tier. Sequential throughput reaches 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 8MB of cache. Expect to pay around $99.00, which lands it among mid-range options.

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