Sharky Extreme - November Hard Drive + SSD Price Guide

November Hard Drive + SSD Price Guide
November 30, 2008

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 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.

Serial ATA Hard Drive Price List

Hard Drive
Price
Change
$/GB
Vendor

Hitachi Deskstar T7K400 400GB (8MB)
$85
$0
$0.21
ADC

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB (16MB)
$91
$0
$0.18
Atacom

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB (32MB)
$100
$0
$0.13
NewEgg

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB (32MB)
$110
-$20
$0.11
NewEgg

Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 1TB (32MB)
$201
-$23
$0.20
ZipZoomFly

Maxtor DiamondMax 21 320GB (16MB)
$97
$0
$0.30
NextWarehouse

Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB (16MB)
$63
n/a
$0.13
Mwave

Samsung SpinPoint F 640GB (16MB)
$75
-$9
$0.12
NewEgg

Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB (32MB)
$80
-$20
$0.11
NewEgg

Samsung EcoGreen F1 1TB (32MB)
$95
n/a
$0.10
NewEgg

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB (32MB)
$95
-$15
$0.10
Mwave

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB (16MB)
$94
-$10
$0.19
TigerDirect

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB (8MB)
$55
-$3
$0.22
NewEgg

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB (16MB)
$68
$0
$0.21
TigerDirect

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB (16MB)
$78
-$4
$0.16
NewEgg

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB (16MB)
$86
-$9
$0.11
Mwave

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB (16MB)
$60
$0
$0.19
NewEgg

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB (32MB)
$64
-$6
$0.13
Mwave

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 640GB (32MB)
$90
$10
$0.14
NextWarehouse

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB (32MB)
$100
$0
$0.13
NewEgg

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB (32MB)
$100
-$40
$0.10
NewEgg

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (32MB)
$120
-$60
$0.08
NewEgg

Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB (16MB)
$146
-$1
$0.19
Directron

Seagate Barracuda ES 1TB (32MB)
$169
-$34
$0.17
Mwave

Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB (8MB)
$50
$0
$0.20
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB (8MB)
$53
-$5
$0.17
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar SE 400GB (8MB)
$78
$0
$0.20
TigerDirect

Western Digital Caviar SE 500GB (8MB)
$58
-$7
$0.12
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB (16MB)
$53
-$2
$0.21
Mwave

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB (16MB)
$55
-$5
$0.17
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar SE16 400GB (16MB)
$73
-$9
$0.18
NextWarehouse

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB (16MB)
$65
$0
$0.13
Mwave

Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB (16MB)
$82
-$5
$0.13
Mwave

Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB (16MB)
$120
$0
$0.16
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar GP 500GB (16MB)
$60
-$5
$0.12
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar GP 750GB (16MB)
$100
$5
$0.13
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB (16MB)
$106
-$13
$0.11
Mwave

Western Digital Caviar Black 750GB (32MB)
$90
n/a
$0.12
NewEgg

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (32MB)
$120
-$30
$0.12
NewEgg

Western Digital RAID Ed. 160GB (16MB)
$59
$0
$0.37
NextWarehouse

Western Digital RAID Ed. 250GB (16MB)
$78
$0
$0.31
Mwave

Western Digital RAID Ed2 320GB (8MB)
$77
-$12
$0.24
NextWarehouse

Western Digital RAID Ed2 500GB (16MB)
$88
-$16
$0.18
Mwave

Western Digital RAID Ed2 750GB (16MB)
$169
$0
$0.23
NewEgg

Western Digital RAID Ed2 GP 1TB (16MB)
$208
$3
$0.21
NewEgg

Western Digital RAID Ed3 GP 1TB (16MB)
$180
-$39
$0.18
NewEgg

Western Digital Raptor 74GB (16MB)
$140
$0
$1.89
NewEgg

Western Digital Raptor 150GB (16MB)
$155
$0
$1.03
Upgrade Bay

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB (16MB)
$174
n/a
$1.16
Upgrade Bay

Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB (16MB)
$175
-$5
$1.17
NewEgg

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB (16MB)
$230
-$50
$0.77
NewEgg

	Page 1	Parallel ATA Hard Drive Price List
	Page 2	Serial ATA Hard Drive Price List
	Page 3	Solid State Drive Price List
	Page 4	Parallel ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB
	Page 5	Serial ATA Hard Drives Sorted by $/GB
	Page 6	Solid State Drives Sorted by $/GB
	Page 7	Parallel & Serial ATA HDs and SSDs Sorted by Price Change
	Page 8	Parallel & Serial ATA HDs and SSDs Sorted by Price

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