The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 is the king of the hill in this area as it has the highest interface bandwidth of any hard drive in our tests. At the same time we need to make very clear that the interface bandwidth reflects the drive's maximum interface performance, which only comes into action if data is read or written from or into the cache memory. All data operations that require physical access to the magnetic platters are limited by their maximum performance (see next benchmark).

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