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December Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff December 29, 2006Serial 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 different trends than the Parallel ATA chart, and in addition to one very large price drop, there is also more consistent downward movement. The price change in question is a $108 drop to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB drive, which is the result of sale prices, and did contribute greatly to the overall chart performance this month. Still, there were five other price drops that hit double digits, including the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400GB (-$27) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB (-$22) drives. There were four price increases that hit $10 or more, but largest of which was only $18. This helped us to a very healthy aggregate chart drop of $154, which definitely spells good news for consumers.
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