Hello All I did run hdparam -t on my SATA || harddisk. Is 57.30 MB/sec a good transfer rate for a SATA || HD? # hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.00 seconds = 57.30 MB/sec If not, how can I tune the transfer rate? Thanks, Thomas