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November Hard Drive + SSD Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff November 30, 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 this is certainly true for November. There were a ton of price drops, including fourteen of $10 or higher and six of those hitting $30 or more. The largest price cuts hit the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (-$60), Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB (-$50) and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB (-$40) drives. Only a lone SATA hard drive jumped by double digits, and that one was just a $10 spike to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 640GB model. Naturally, this was a great month for buyers, and the SATA chart dropped by an aggregate total of $439.
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