May 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 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).

While we had some nice results in the PATA listings, these were again overshadowed by the activity in the Serial ATA hard drive chart. Eleven SATA drives fell by double digits, and the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB (-$31), Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB (-$30) and Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB (-$20) were the most significant. Only a single drive listing increased by a similar amount, as the Western Digital Raptor 74GB jumped by $14 - the next largest was only $7. These pricing trends made for another positive month for SATA drive buyers, with an aggregate chart drop of $218.

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Page 1 May 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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