So you're trying to say that my year old cheapass 160gb harddrive is almost eight times faster than the western digital 100gb drive at the bottom of those charts? And just over twice as fast as the fastest (Samsung spinpoint F1)? No man. The measurement is listed as MB/s. Big b generally means bytes not bits, as it does in this case.

My initial point stands. Show me a hdd that maxes out at 10mbytes/sec transfer speed and I'll show you a piece of computing (pre)history.