"Peter" writes:
real-world relevance. All allocated to a single device. No drive on the
market, SCSI or SATA, is capable of sustained transfers at anything close
to this rate, so it's adequate for any purpose.

Not true:
http://www.fcpa.com/products/hard-dr...fications.html
Data transfer rate To/from media 147 MB/s

He said *sustained* data rates. You only get 147 MB/sec while you're on one
track. As soon as you have to switch heads or seek, there's a gap in the data
stream.

The only benchmark I could find on that drive in a couple of minutes
of hunting shows 80 MB/sec, which is still very good.

http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf/...sabt/fw/323039

-- Anton