Serial ATA may be the interface of today, but SATA II is the future, and the latest drive models are certainly making use of the new standard. Features such as NCQ and a higher overall bandwidth really help take some SATA drives to a higher performance plane. For our selected brands and sizes, we've gone the same route as with our PATA list, and included everything from a standard 80GB model, to the top-of-the-line 500GB monstrosities and WD Raptor 10K RPM speed demons. The number of PATA drives may outnumber the SATA selection, but Serial ATA drives are decidedly high-end, even at the entry-level and will sport 8MB of cache and 7200 RPM speeds. Our SATA hard drive price list features entries for drives, prices and price changes, and also columns for $/GB (cost per GB) and model number.
The Serial ATA hard drive listings showed a bit more activity than the PATA chart for September, and the total chart decrease was $138, or double that of the PATA side. This was still down from August, but some larger price cuts to the Western Digital 400GB (-$31), the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB (-$14), and MaxLine III 300GB (-$13) hard drives did give high-end Serial ATA buyers some nice deals to look at. On the flip side, there were a few price spikes, including the Samsung 120GB (+$14) and 80GB (+$13) drives, which provided the only double-digit increases for the month.
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