Are smaller drives faster?

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I remember a while back a mate told me that smaller sized drives usually have better seek times and data transfer rates than the larger ones.

Eg. an 80GB drive is faster than a 120GB, 120GB is faster than 160GB and so on.

Just wondered if anyone could confirm if this is right?

Thanks

 

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Thanks for replies.

I was considering getting a couple of 80GB drives to run in RAID 0 but I don't think I'll bother now.

I know that for the best performance the answer is Western Digital Raptors, but they're so expensive for the amount of storage you get