WD6400AAKS faster than Raptor?

[EvilBellyLint]

So the raptors shave off less than half their seek time by using fastest 10% and you think your wd6400 will shave off 3/4s of your seek time by using fastest ~25%?

Optimistic just a wee bit, no?

I predict ~9ms at best

What will matter most is I/O per sec. I'll try to get a hold of
IOMeter or similar to test... along with HDTack/Tune just to
compare sustained throughput.

Of course I could always be optimistic as you say, but limited
initial data strongly suggests this drive will outperform the Raptor.
I'm not trying to push these new drives on anyone...lol just trying
to offer some solid alternatives to outdated technology.


peace

EBL

Edited to Add: even if your prediction of 9ms is correct,
there are factors like caching algorithms, data throughput,
etc... that determine "real world" performance, so we really
need to do some actual application testing if we want the
true full picture. Benchmarks are fun and all, but they don't
really tell the complete story.