Originally Posted By: thenominous
Spin up till drive ready times are running at 16 seconds !!! on newer Seagate SV35.4 drives.

Is that what you've got? Sixteen seconds is probably long enough to defeat the caching algorithms, which pre-load about the first ten seconds of upcoming tracks in the hope that that's easily long enough to spin the drive up (the worst ones we could then find were about five seconds).

Peter