Serial ATA may be the interface of today, but SATA II/SATA 3.0 Gb/sec. is the future, and the latest hard drive models are certainly making use of the new standard. Features such as NCQ and a higher overall data 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 and 750GB monstrosities, along with the powerful WD Raptor 10K RPM speed demons. As Serial ATA drives are a newer technology, these are decidedly high-end, even at the entry-level, sporting 8MB of cache and 7200 RPM speeds as the base minimum. 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 Serial ATA hard drive listings again showed significant pricing activity, and the total chart movement resulted in a healthy chart drop of $332, well ahead of the Parallel ATA total. The individual cuts followed the same basic trends, with the higher capacity models displaying the largest price drops. The Hitachi Deskstar 500GB (-$56), Western Digital SE16 500GB (-$31), Seagate 7200.10 750GB (-$28), and Western Digital RAID Ed. 500GB (-$25) led the charge of eleven double-digit price drops. There were virtually no price increases to speak of, with only three in total, all of which were in the $1-$2 range.
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