August 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 compared to their SATA counterparts, but the gap has almost disappeared in August. There were more individual price drops, as nine SATA models fell by double digits, but the largest was only a $23 cut to the Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB drive. Other notable decreases included the Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB (-$20) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB (-$17) hard drives, while a $10 spike to the Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB was the only price increase of note. The overall SATA chart dropped by an aggregate total of $158 this month, which barely outpaced the PATA results.

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Page 1 August 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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