Girderman

That the rate-determining step in data transfer is not seek times (how long it takes the wiper thingie to move around) but rather the electronics behind it. It's all moving in and out of the same hard drive, so it's all going to be limited by that.

Otherwise you'd be buying your hard drives buy the technical characteristics of their read-write times, rather than the raw data transfer rates.

But all I'm asking is for some back-up. I have my own theory and am just as likely to be wrong as right. Just want to know if someone that really DOES know says it's one way or the other.