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March Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff March 31, 2008Serial 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 latest 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, usually sporting 16MB-32MB of cache and 7200 RPM speeds at the top of the scale. Our SATA hard drive price list features entries for drives, prices and price changes, and a column for $/GB (cost per GB). The PATA drive chart may have showed good results, but these are easily overshadowed by the Serial ATA hard drive chart. Here we have a whopping sixteen hard drives falling by double digits, the largest of which included the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB (-$30), Maxtor Ultra16 500GB (-$27) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB (-$21) drives. Only a single SATA drive jumped by more than a few dollars, and that was only a $17 price jump to the Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10K model. The overall chart results were very impressive this month, and the aggregate chart drop totaled $264, which is a nice improvement compared to the $187 and $144 drops we saw in February and January.
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