December 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 trends in the Serial ATA hard drive chart were very similar, but lagged slightly behind their PATA counterparts with an aggregate chart decrease of only $59 for December. Five Serial ATA listings fell by double digits this month, including the Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 400GB (-$28), Western Digital RAID Ed2 500GB (-$25) and Western Digital RAID Ed2 750GB (-$13) drives. There was also some activity on the other end of the chart, as four SATA drives increased by similar amounts. The largest was a $19 spike to the Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10K, and was followed up with a $12 jump to the price of the Samsung SpinPoint 200GB hard drive.

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Page 1 December 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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