Price Guides August 2003 Part II: Hard Drives and Memory
by Kristopher Kubicki on September 2, 2003 3:46 AM EST- Posted in
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Memory makes everyone scratch their heads at the AnandTech labs. Attempting to price memory on a week to week basis is almost impossible – but for two solid weeks in a row DDR prices have been on the rise. Particularly, the value oriented PC2700 line costs only 5% less than high performing PC3200. It’s our best guess that PC3200 will soon be on the rise again as well.
Since PC2700 prices are up, PC3200 looks like a good blend of value and performance. Corsair takes this week’s price/performance winner, but we suspect this is due to their heavy e-commerce saturation. It is very likely that even their prices will increase over the next couple weeks.
PC4000 debuted for Mushkin and Corsair, but as Wesley recently observed, this memory unfortunately does not benefit AMD users, and the benefits for Intel system builders are only marginal. Besides, who really wants to spend an additional $80 per stick over PC3200 anyway?
That’s all for this week, but next week we should have a full lineup of SCSI hard drives to add to our IDE and SATA mix-up. If you have a particular product or category you would like us to add, feel free to click the “Comments” icon at the bottom of the article! You may also email me directly, kkubicki@anandtech.com.
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SUOrangeman - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
I was a bit surprised by the Raptor comments as well.I have no reason to believe that StorageReview's numbers are less than credible, and they state that the Raptor does its job quite well. And let's not forget the superior warranty.
-SUO
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
Any chance you'll be including SCSI drives in the future?Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
The price comparisons states " Just as we stated several months ago the Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB 10,000RPM drive really does not cut it as far as performance, and does not justify the extraordinary cost.:"The article it links you to though refutes this as Anand himself states "With write caching enabled and with the production level optimizations present in the drive's firmware, the Raptor is now the fastest desktop drive we've laid our hands on.
Well, which is it?