Serial ATA may be the interface of today, but SATA II/SATA 3.0 Gb/sec. 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 slightly outnumber the SATA selection, but Serial ATA drives are decidedly high-end, even at the entry-level, will sport 8MB of cache and 7200 RPM speeds. Our SATA hard drive price list features entries for drives, prices and price changes, and columns for $/GB (cost per GB) and model number.
Not surprisingly, the Serial ATA hard drive chart displayed a lot more activity that its Parallel ATA brethren. The individual cuts were also larger, with the Maxtor MaxLine III 300GB and Seagate Barracuda 160GB dropping by $49 and $25, respectively, while a few of the Western Digital 250GB to 400GB drives rounded out the top-end of the price cuts. Price increases were nominal, and the total chart movement of -$164 ranked nicely ahead of both November's PATA price movement, and the aggregate dollar change in last month's SATA listings.
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