While oft-used (and abused) benchmarks put great importance on the burst speed and read speed, the real truth lies within one often-forgotten specification: seek time. Lowering access and seek times are the main goal of every HDD engineer. And this baby has a real-world, HDtach-measured access time of 8.0ms, aka double its declared 4.0ms seeks. 7200rpm drives often offer declared speeds of either 8.0ms or 12ms, but, in the real world, we're talking about 13-16ms, which is double than this Raptor offers..



Link: The Register