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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Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
i have always like IBM hard drives now that i am ready to got to Serial ATA 80GB or higher i would like to request information on which Serial ATA is the best. Based on price, warranty, heat build up, speed, and anything else i left out. Thank you very much and keep up the great work. Your web site is one of the best i have found.KristopherKubicki - Saturday, September 6, 2003 - link
Its all fixed now. We have had a few errors while adding the "Change" column into the guides. It basically just displays the price delta over 7 days time. We are all done with any coding so it should all be ok.Kristopher
Anonymous User - Friday, September 5, 2003 - link
THIS IS SOOOO COOL!EVERYTHING IS FREE. I better post in hot deals really fast.
I don't know what to get first, the free 300 GB drive, or all the free ram I could hope for.
But no, really, there are some serious problems with the price engine.
KristopherKubicki - Friday, September 5, 2003 - link
OK much better. Pretty soon the guides will start displaying week changing price as well ;) Should be neat.Thanks for the partience.
Kristopher
Dilsnik - Thursday, September 4, 2003 - link
Still can't see any charts.8:30 PM Thursday Sept 4 2003
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, September 4, 2003 - link
Ah, its a problem on our side. Im fixing it. ;) We are trying to make it display weekly price changes as well. Give me an hour or so ;)Kristopher
BurninUp - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
Why can't I see any charts? Darn XP and java I bet. Where can I get a Java plug in for stinkin XP pro?KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
fixed.Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
The "check prices" link for the Raptor drive links to the wrong drive.KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
My apologies. My data was based on the Raptor preview rather than the actual review. I have updated the data. Thanks for helping me out SUOrangeman and Jeff.SCSI drives should be added later this week.
Cheers,
Kristopher