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December Hard Drive + SSD Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff January 1, 2009Serial 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). It was a slightly different story in the Serial ATA listings, as this chart showed consistent price drops at the upper range. Six SATA models fell by double digits, and the more significant price drops included activity on the Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB (-$45), Western Digital Caviar GP 750GB (-$30), and Western Digital Raptor 74GB (-$30) drives. There were a few similar price increases, but the largest was an $18 spike to the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB, along with a few $10 price jumps. This muted the downward trend a bit, but we still had a nice aggregate chart drop of $122 for December.
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