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 showed more movement than the Parallel ATA chart, and posted a very impressive aggregate chart drop of $252, or just back of last month's $257 total decrease. There were nine double-digit price cuts, with the larger ones affecting the higher-end hard drives, but with some movement through the various market levels. The more significant drops included the Seagate 7200.10 750GB (-$46), Western Digital RAID Ed. 500GB (-$36), and Maxtor DiamondMax 11 500GB (-$21) SATA drives. On the other end of the scale, there was only a single double-digit price increase, as the Seagate 7200.9 300GB jumped by $10.
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