The Hitachi Ultrastar 15K300 (part no. 0B22387) is a 73GB 3.5-inch SAS hard drive designed for high-performance enterprise storage applications. Spinning at 15,000 RPM with a 3GB/s SAS interface and 16MB cache, this drive delivers low-latency random access suitable for OLTP databases, virtualization hosts, and transaction-heavy workloads. The 15K spindle speed and SAS connectivity ensure compatibility with legacy and mid-range enterprise servers and storage arrays from the 2000s-2010s era, including HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, and IBM System x platforms. Typical use cases include RAID configurations for small-to-medium deployments where capacity requirements are modest but speed and reliability are critical. This drive is end-of-life but remains available for replacement in active systems or archival/test environments.
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