I don't think it matters as much any more now that we don't have spinning disks with slow seek times. For things like Final Cut/iMovie with lots of video/audio

I don't think it matters as much any more now that we don't have spinning disks with slow seek times. For things like Final Cut/iMovie with lots of video/audio/misc tracks, it was trivial to saturate the disk with dumb seeks when reading otherwise linear data streams due to a lack of knobs.