December 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 chart not only gives us an all-in-one hard drive price list, 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 Seagate Barracuda 160GB or Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB drives, both of which offer high-end performance and have the best $/GB rating for sub-$90 hard drives. For the PATA buyer, the sub-$100 Western Digital SE and Seagate 200GB drives are the top deals, and sport 44-cents and 46-cents per GB ratings, respectively. The higher-end performance/capacity PATA market will get the best bang for the buck out of the Western Digital SE 320GB, Seagate 300GB, and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB drives, while the Western Digital 300/320GB and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB drives continue to hold the fort with high-end SATA buyers.

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