> The performance of SATA drive is not upto the mark. I used to get > better results on FC3. What could be the possible problem and any > ideas on how to solve it? My Gigabyte 8IPE Pro with a Segate 7200 80Gb SATA disk is getting: Timing cached reads: 3332 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1667.09 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 168 MB in 3.03 seconds = 55.49 MB/sec This is basically the same as what it was with FC3. In fact, all my systems with SATA & Segate 7200 disks all get 55MB/sec consistantly. Phil ---- http://www.pza.net.au/