Price Guide, January 2006: Storage
by Haider Farhan on January 17, 2006 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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SCSI
Quite a few of the SCSI Ultra320 drives have seen a price hike ranging from about $15 to $200. The one drive with a significant decrease is the Hitachi Ultra320 147GB 10000RPM 8MB Ultrastar 10K300 [RTPE: HUS103014FL3800] down about $112, bringing its price to $333 shipped.
The most reasonably priced 15,000 RPM drive we're seeing is the Maxtor Ultra320 73GB 15000RPM 8MB Atlas 15K 68-pin [RTPE: 8C073L0] on sale for an even $320 shipped ($4.38 per GB).
The SAS drives have been slowly decreasing in price, and are now roughly the same price of the Ultra320 drives.
The best value, cost per GB-wise, is the Maxtor SAS 73.5GB 10000RPM 16MB Atlas 10K V SAS [RTPE: 8D073S0] which is going for $216 ($2.93 per GB). Also, the Maxtor SAS 147GB 10000RPM 16MB Atlas 10K V SAS [RTPE: 8D147S0] is going for $2.95 per GB, that's $434 shipped.
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Olaf van der Spek - Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - link
Why is there a distinction between 1.5 and 3 gbit/s drives?I haven´t seen any benchmark yet where this difference in interface speed results in a performance difference.
Brian23 - Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - link
Why aren't laptop drives listed? Some of us need to upgrade our laptops!DigitalFreak - Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - link
http://labs.anandtech.com">Uh...Xenoterranos - Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - link
My thoughts exactly. I have a compaq v5000z comming in in about 2 weeks that is crying for an upgrade.