July 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).

The Serial ATA listings are usually a lot more active than their SATA counterparts, but the gap is a lot smaller in July. Sure, we still found eleven price drops that reached double digits, but the largest was a $42 cut to the Western Digital Caviar GP 7200 1TB drive, and this was followed up by the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB (-$30) and Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB (-$22) models. There was also one big price increase, as the Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB spiked by $36, and ate into the overall chart movement. This translated into an aggregate chart decrease of $185, which was right on part with last month's $190 total drop.

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Page 1 July 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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