February 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. In the entry-level market, the SATA Maxtor 250GB and Western Digital 250GB drives are the top values in the $100-and-under range, while PATA buyers will get the same kind of deal with 250GB models from Western Digital, Samsung and Seagate. Overall, 250GB drives are a real steal these days. But for those who require a bit more space, the Western Digital SE 320GB drives took the "best value crown" in both the PATA and SATA charts, and it's tough to beat them this month. The Seagate and Western Digital 400GB models continue to move up the charts, but it will likely take a few more months before these achieve a better value rating.

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Page 1 February Hard Drive Price Guide Page 2 Serial ATA Hard Drive Price List Page 3 Parallel ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 4 Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB Page 5 Parallel and Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by Price Change Page 6 Parallel and Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by Price

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