Western Digital Caviar SE 500 GB

A 500GB 3.5" HDD on the PATA 100 interface. Sequential throughput tops out at 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes, backed by 8MB of cache. At roughly $0.1 per gigabyte it sits in the mid-range tier. Expect to pay around $52.23, which lands it among mid-range options.

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