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.
The news was much better for Serial ATA hard drives, and while prices were not dropping like flies, things look a lot brighter than on the Parallel ATA end of things. The aggregate SATA chart drop hit $74, and there were plenty of significant price drops as well. These included four double-digit cuts, and the Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB (-$46), Hitachi 500GB (-$26), Hitachi 400GB (-$17), and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB (-$15) hard drives are sporting lower prices compared to last month. The pricing activity cooled off a bit after these four models, but thankfully there was only a single double-digit increase, as the Samsung 160GB jumped by $17.
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