Unbiased Seagate 100GB/platter HD review

Everyone's favourite PC review site <cough>, Tom's Hardware, today posted a review of Seagate’s new 7200.7 100GB/platter harddrive. Just like usual, the competitors drivers are missing from some of the graphs and the conclusion is, erm, a bit different than other sites...

[COLOR=royalblue]With up to 64 MB/s, it even outperforms Western Digital's WD360 Raptor drive (...) With around 15 ms, the new Barracuda 7200.7 lags a bit compared to its competition (...) The new Barracuda 7200.7 with 200 GB is an excellent hard drive with low noise levels and a fast data transfer rate. And that is what you need most in a typical desktop environment*.[/COLOR]

*Where "typical desktop environment" does not mean at all, reading small fragmented files where short access times is extremely more important than high sustained transfer rate. Educate yourself and [URL=http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20040209/index.html]go read Tom's review[/URL] (bring a wheelbarrow of salt though).