That is low. Is it pretty full and fragged so Xbench has to hunt a lot to find space to write and read its test data? Bill On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 10:01 AM, Paul Allsopp wrote: > I've been looking with interest at the xbench results post on the > www.cubeowner.com forum. It seems as if the 80gb barracuda iv in my > cube is running paprticularly slow - around 55 compared to upwards of > 80 on other people's machines. Anyone have any ideas as to why this > might be the case?