June Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2

Serial ATA Hard Drives

Serial ATA and the SATA II/SATA 3.0 Gb/s interface is the present and 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, and this month continues the trend. There were eight double-digit SATA price drops, including three of $20 or more: the Hitachi Deskstar 750GB (-$25), Hitachi Deskstar 1TB (-$25) and Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB (-$21) drives. Only two SATA drives increased by a similar amount, as the Samsung SpinPoint T133 300GB jumped by $15 and the Maxtor DiamondMax 21 320GB spiked by $35. The overall chart trends mirror this, as the Serial ATA listings posted an aggregate drop of $122, or well over double what we saw with the PATA drives.

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Page 1 June 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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