Quote Originally Posted by cpjust View Post
70MB/s... That's all?
Get some Seagate Barraducas. I was getting 98.9MB/s without any HD or Volume cache enabled and 262.8MB/s with both caches enabled.
That's what I have! I just loved the name. 500mb for $50. There is a catch here tho: my drive has been fine, but there was a bad thing that happened a few months ago with them; if you google "Seagate Barracuda firmware problem" you may find some stuff. I think part of the complication was people who didn't have the problem installed the firmware anyway just to be safe and it made the drives worse. Probably the problem is fixed if you buy them now.

I have not tested it for speed but the SATA cables are nice. I actually have most of it empty. Would there be any point to splitting the drive in half and running RAID that way (can you?) IE, so I could have one 250 mg RAID 1 drive? Then if there is corruption on half the disk it would be still be okay...probably that is silly as most significant hardware problems would be a total disk failure.