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September Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff September 28, 2007Serial 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. For the second month in a row, the Serial ATA hard drive listings far outpaced the Parallel ATA listings when it came to price drops. The results for September included six double-digit price cuts, the largest of which was a serious $48 drop that hit the Western Digital RAID Ed2 750GB drive. Others included the Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 1TB (-$26), Western Digital RAID Ed2 400GB (-$23) and Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB (-$16) hard drives. There was only a single drive that showed a similar price increase, and that was only a $16 jump to the price of Maxtor DiamondMax 21 500GB. The aggregate chart shift displayed a total $93 drop, which is a nice improvement over the -$43 we posted in July.
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