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DAn, Without looking at the source code..it'd be hard to be specific on exactly why it's reporting what it is. For example, if the speed test uses DOS calls, then the amount of buffers (addbuffer or mountlist buffers parameter) can make a significant difference…you're not really reading the drive…you're reading the buffers. At the hardware level…if you're reading/writting the same sector over and over again…cacheing on the drive would act the same…you'd be working from the cache rather than the platters. One other thing could be turning the clock on only while data is actually being transfered. A simple way to test is to create a 1 meg file. Copy it to NIL: and time it. Then copy it to another filename. I think you'll find it takes significantly longer than a 2/3rds of a second. Don