July 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 Western Digital 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 situation is a bit better in the Serial ATA hard drive chart, but much of this was due to a huge $48 cut to the price of the Hitachi Deskstar 750GB drive. There were also five more double-digit price drops, including the Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB (-$20), Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB (-$18) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB (-$13) hard drives. In terms of price increases, a pair of drives - the Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB and Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB - both jumped by $10. The aggregate chart drop of $133 is a higher than the PATA results, and slightly better than the overall $122 SATA chart drop posted in June.

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Page 1 July 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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