All IDE drives should run at 100MB/s,maxtors with the right controller run at
133MB/s,SATA 150MB/s ,SCSI 320MB/s.If you run much lower(1.5-1.6) then
update youre drivers for the controller.

"David G" wrote:

> My Dell 8400 came with a SATA HD, and I installed a second parallel ATA HD to use for data backup. I am experiencing data xfer rates from the SATA drive to the backup of around 1.5 - 1.6 MB/sec. Does this seem right? Seems slow to me. Is there something I can do to speed up the xfer rate?
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> TIA
> David