March 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 250GB drives from Maxtor, Western Digital, Seagate and Samsung offer the top value in the $100-and-under range. PATA buyers will get the same kind of deal from the various 250GB models, with the Western Digital SE 250GB standing out from the crowd. For buyers who require a bit more space, the Western Digital SE 320GB PATA and SATA drives are right at the top of the value rankings. In terms of the larger capacities, the top deals for PATA come from Seagate (400GB) and Maxtor (500GB), while on the SATA side, the vendors with the highest value ratings are Western Digital (400GB) and Seagate (500GB).

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Page 1 March 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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