June Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 4

Serial ATA Hard Drive Value

Just as in the previous PATA chart, we are also taking a close look at our Serial ATA drives and determining exactly which models and capacities offer the best overall value. We do this through the tried-and-true method of determining hard drive value, or "price per GB", which is then used as a sorting criteria to ensure the best $/GB deals rise to the top. Of course, no method is foolproof, and other factors like performance or features certainly come into play, but it does give us a different view on which brands, speeds and capacities offer the best bang for the buck.

The top-rated hard drives in the Serial ATA value chart are very different compared to the PATA listings, and here we start at 500GB and move up. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB and Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB drives tied for the top position at 15-cents/GB, followed by six 500GB and 750GB SATA drives, all sporting 16-cents/GB value ratings. We continue to see the 1TB drives climbing the SATA value list, and both the Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB and Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB drives are coming up fast at 18-cents/GB each. As usual, the Western Digital Raptor drives holds down the bottom of the list, although the latest Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB has the best $/GB rating of the entire line.

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Page 1 June 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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