May Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 3

Parallel ATA Hard Drive Value

The following chart takes a slightly different angle on Parallel ATA hard drive prices, and attempts to discern overall value using a price per GB figure, and then sorting by it. This chart pushes the lowest $/GB rating to the top, and uses a tried-and-true method of illustrating where the best overall values may exist, 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 hard drive brands, speeds and capacities offer the best bang for the buck.

The Parallel ATA market continues to follow the same basic trend, and we again see the majority of top-rated drive values residing in the 250GB to 320GB range. Six of the top ten PATA drive values are in this range, but there has been a definite incursion of 500GB models in May, and this capacity seems to be the sweet spot for high-end system configurations. The top value this month is the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB at 25-cents/GB, but both the Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB and Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500GB are very close behind at 26-cents/GB. At the other end of the scale, we have the usual selection of 80GB to 120GB hard drives in their usual position at the bottom of the chart.

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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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