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November Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff November 30, 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. The trends in the Serial ATA hard drive chart were the exact opposite, and here we found lower prices and a ton of potential deals. The listings included eleven double-digit price drops, and two drives fell by $60: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB and Western Digital RAID Edition 2 750GB. Quite a few Western Digital models received healthy price cuts this month, and these accounted for four of the top six SATA price decreases. It wasn't all good news, as the price of a Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB drive jumped by $20, but that was where it began and ended, as the next largest spike was only $5. The aggregate chart drop of $259 is very good news for consumers, and far exceeded the -$23 we posted in October.
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