Storage Review brengt ons een vergelijking tussen de Quantum Atlas 10k II en de Seagate Cheetah 36LP, twee relaxte 10.000rpm SCSI met respectivelijk een seektime van 4.7 en 5.2ms. De Atlas profiteert verder van een 8MB buffer terwijl de Cheetah het 4MB moet doen. In de praktijk is de Atlas dus ietsie sneller alhoewel Storage Review toch voor de Cheetah kiest vanwege het minder zwaar prijskaartje:
Overall, what we've witnessed here are small changes between firmware revisions of two drives that add up when they're compared against each other. Though the Atlas 10k II improves upon its already phenomenal Business Disk WinMark score, its regression in IOMeter combined with the improvements delivered by the Cheetah (not to mention the current price gap… hopefully the Atlas will come down) drive us to give the nod to the 36LP. Seagate's latest would thus garner our Leaderboard spot if it weren't for their own Cheetah X15 drive. All is not over yet, however. Fujitsu's impressively-spec'ed MAJ3182LP waits in the wings. Though we've been disappointed in the past with Fujitsu drives not living up to the performance that specs hint at, we nonetheless have high hopes for the MAJ. Expect a review within a week!