On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 03:59 PM, b wrote: > What latency? I trash a 2 GB file in OS 9, let's say, a copy of > Windows 200 Professional, and it is one, two *poof* in OSX it may or > may not be that way. It's been awhile since I actually used windows, but I do remember having serious problems with drive fragmentation. Is it possible that X's latency has to do with keeping things organized, while W2K may not. A stupid theory, but not being an expert on such matters, and never having had a problem with fragmentation in X, I tend to let it do its job. A 2 GB file hasn't ever really slowed things down for me. Rick