"Will" wrote in message
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70MB/s is OK for more-or-less modern SATA drive. The run seems to be long
enough to not be influenced by the cache.

Wow, amazing. What is the easiest way to setup a test to show that
performance level on a single drive?

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Will

Boot a stand-alone Linux CD that supports your SATA adapter and then run a
large 'dd' directly from the raw drive device. Something like:
# time `dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=32k count=1000000`

Rob