>>The Seagate cheetah 15k-5 is said to deliver 125MB/s sustained.. At least according to their whitepaper :) Oh pleeeeaaase, Tanel. I'm going to have to give you some lip for that when I see you in Birmingham :-). Nice find, though :-) Folks, please, these little round brown spinning thingies only pull these numbers off when they are maxing out the track buffer... try writing to one on occasion. Heck, I should get ahold of seagate and have them up their number. I posted proof of nearly 190MB/s here with that tongue-in-cheek test...that was a cheetah :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l