December Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 4

Serial ATA Hard Drive Value

Just as in the previous PATA chart, we are also taking a close look at our Serial ATA drives and determining exactly which models and capacities offer the best overall value. We do this through the tried-and-true method of determining hard drive value, or "price per GB", which is then used as a sorting criteria to ensure the best $/GB deals rise to the top. Of course, no method is foolproof, and other factors like performance or features certainly come into play, but it does give us a different view on which brands, speeds and capacities offer the best bang for the buck.

The Serial ATA value chart takes the overall trend we saw in the PATA drive listings, and accelerates it. Here, instead of just the 400GB drives making an incursion, including the top value choice of the Samsung SpinPoint T133 400GB, we also see the Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB drive close behind, as well as the Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB sitting one place out of the top 10. The other top SATA drive values are from the 250GB to 320GB range, but these models simply don't dominate as they used to. The five Western Digital Raptor models are at their usual position at the bottom of the chart, as this line of high-end 10K RPM drives has always been about pure performance and reliability, not value.

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Page 1 December 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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