February Hard Drive + SSD 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).

It was slightly better in the Serial ATA listings, and although the level of price increases was similar, the price drops outweighed them and our SATA drive chart showed an aggregate chart decrease of $70 for the month. Seven of these price cuts hit double digits, including the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 750GB (-$38), Western Digital RAID Edition3 GP 1TB (-$22) and Western Digital RAID Edition 160GB (-$18) drives. The only noticeable price increases accounted for a $32 spike to the price of the Western Digital RAID Edition2 GP 750GB and a $12 jump to the Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB.

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Page 1 February Hard Drive + SSD Price Guide 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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