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October Hard Drive Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 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 Serial ATA listings are usually a lot more active compared to their PATA counterparts, and don't see the trend changing this month. Eight SATA hard drives fell by double digits, including a massive $53 drop to the Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB drive, while the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB and Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 1TB drive received price cuts of $28 and $27, respectively. Thankfully, there were only a few price increases, and just one of note, as the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB jumped by $12. This resulted in another very positive month for SATA buyers, as the chart dropped by an aggregate total of $214.
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