April Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2

Serial ATA Hard Drives

Serial ATA may be the interface of today, but SATA II/SATA 3.0 Gb/s 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 chart was considerably more active, in terms of both individual price drops and overall chart movement. There were nine double-digit price decreases, the largest of which included the Maxtor DiamondMax 21 320GB (-$37), Hitachi Deskstar 400GB (-$23) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (-$16) drives. The price increases were very limited, with only a pair reaching double digits, but one of those was a $52 spike to the price of the Samsung SpinPoint T133 400GB hard drive. The overall chart movement is right on track with these numbers, as the SATA hard drive chart dropped by an aggregate total of $120.

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Page 1 April 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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