Hi, Brian, Brian Hurt wrote: > So the question is: is there an easy to install and run, read-heavy > benchmark out there that I can wave at them to get them to fix the > problem? For sequential read performance, use dd. Most variants of dd I've seen output some timing information, and if not, do a "time dd if=/your/device of=/dev/null bs=1M" on the partition. Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in Europe! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org