Its about time

Been a boffin for 20 years. Never seen any electronic device perform to spec. Never seen marketing specs that have ever had real world performance information.

Marketing specs (like RPM) are, and always have been, utterly meaningless.

And no, Maxtor is not infrior to Seagate. In twenty years of buying and selling harddrives, only Seagate have failed early and regularly. So much so I refused to buy them again until only recently, and that is only because the HDD industry has become much like the OS industry. Bought out and dominated by one (inferior) player.

Now if we can convince Intel to drop the Spin, the world might be a better place. But, then again, there would be far fewer Intel machines out there (as it is inferior tech).