January 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 almost the exact opposite of the PATA listings, and here we find a much better environment for hard drive buyers. Seven listings fell by double digits, including the Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 1TB (-$24), Samsung SpinPoint T166 320GB (-$18) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB (-$14) hard drives. There was not a single price increase that reached similar levels, and the highest was only a $7 jump, which hit both the Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB and Hitachi Deskstar E7K500 500GB drives. The overall chart moved in a very positive direction for buyers, and it showed an aggregate chart drop of $144 for the month.

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Page 1 January 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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