September Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 6

Parallel and Serial ATA Hard Drives: Full List

The following chart takes all of the tracked Parallel and Serial ATA hard drives and then incorporates them all into a monster chart, which is then sorted by retail price. It's a very extensive list, which gives you all the important price data, and can be a valuable shopping tool for those on limited budgets. This also gives us another way to view the data, and determine how each drive stacks up in terms of price, and then ensuring you make the best use of your gaming system dollar. As with the previous chart, we have replaced the $/GB figure with a SATA/PATA column to ensure there is no confusion about the interface of any drive models.

The overall price chart not only gives us an all-in-one pricing chart, but also helps to illustrate where the best deals for each buying segment may exist. At the entry-level range, SATA buyers should definitely head for the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB drive, which not only features a whopping 16MB cache and high-end performance, but also has the best $/GB rating for a sub-$100 drive. On the PATA side, the Western Digital SE 200GB gives us the same kind of deal in a sub-$100 drive. On the higher-end of the performance and capacity markets, the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB and Western Digital SE 320GB are the top bets for PATA buyers, while the Western Digital 320GB and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB drives do the same for SATA buyers.

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Page 1 September Hard Drive Price Guide Page 2 Serial ATA Hard Drive Price List Page 3 Parallel ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 4 Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 5 Parallel and Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by Price Change Page 6 Parallel and Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by Price

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