Larger platters present a sort of trade-off when it comes to performance.
Heads must seek across all of a larger platter , however, which also increases seek time . Thus, among the hardware enthusiast community, the Bigfoot series has enjoyed a rather unenviable reputition of sluggishness. Quantum has since brought their new Bigfoot TS to the market. Seek time has been trimmed from a lofty 12 milliseconds in the TX line to a bit more svelte 10.5 milliseconds. Spindle speed remains, however, a sedate 4000 rpm.