October 2005 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. For the entry-level buyer, the SATA crowd should be looking at the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB drive, which not only features high-end performance, but also has the best $/GB rating for a sub-$90 drive. On the PATA side, the Maxtor and Western Digital SE 200GB drives offer the top deals, and both are priced at just under $90. The higher-end performance and capacity markets will get the best bang for the buck out of the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB and Western Digital SE 320GB PATA drives, while the Western Digital 320GB and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB drives offer the same deal for SATA buyers.

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