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.
Surprisingly, the Serial ATA hard drive listings showed less activity than the PATA chart, with a total decrease of only $112, which is less than this month's PATA result and September's SATA aggregate drop. There were still a total of five double-digit price cuts, with the Western Digital 300GB (-$20), Maxtor 250GB (-$19), and Seagate 200GB (-$12) leading the way. This was actually a pretty good month for Serial ATA prices, especially if we take away the whopping $28 jump to the price of the Hitachi 500GB behemoth.
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