October 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.

While there was better news in the Serial ATA hard drive chart, it still depends on exactly where you are looking to buy. There were five double-digit price cuts, and the largest ones included the Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB (-$52) and Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB (-$32) hard drives. On the other hand, another six drives increased by double digits, and while these did not have the same highs, we still found the Western Digital RAID Ed2 400GB jumping by $22 and the Samsung SpinPoint T166 320GB going up by $20. The overall chart movement was indicative of these numbers, with the listings dropping slightly, by a total of only $23.

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Page 1 October 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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