May 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 750GB and 1TB 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 is usually more active than its PATA cousin, but this month showed a rapid cooling in the pricing trends. Instead of the usual triple-digit chart decrease, we're left with a measly $40 aggregate drop, and virtually no significant individual cuts. The largest were drops to the Western Digital RAID Ed2 400GB (-16), Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB (-$15) and Hitachi Deskstar 250GB (-$12) hard drives. Unfortunately, the other end of things was active, with a massive $45 spike to the Hitachi Deskstar 400GB drive ranking at the top of the list. There was some good news, as the powerful Hitachi Deskstar 750GB and 1TB drives made their chart debut.

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Page 1 May 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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