Storage Review has posted a comparsion between the Atlas 10k II and the Cheetah 36LP. Here a snip:
The access times exhibited by both revised drives fell in line with the measurements gleaned from the original units. The Cheetah 36LP´s seek times hovered right around 9.0 milliseconds. Though the seek time in the 2nd sample of our Atlas 10k II reads 7.9 milliseconds vs the 7.8 turned in by the original, the difference is a cosmetic one presented by the peculiarities of rounding out to just two significant digits. The measured times hovered around 7.85 milliseconds, with the original Atlas´ figure coming in just a hair below and thus winning itself the insignificant 7.8ms figure. In any case, however, the Altas 10k II´s access time remains extremely impressive, clocking in at over a full millisecond below that of the Cheetah 36LP.Read more
