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I believe anyone can buy the Maxtor drive (MAJIK amybe?) I'll see if I can dig up a price. I don't think its over 10,000, but I may be wrong, (I never tried to buy one. I know this drive has been made awhile.) Your definitely right about normal drives and cache's! Maybe you can answer a qusetion for me that I haven't been able to fiure out exactly: (my thoughts are that it's a bug in the scsi.device IDE code, not allowing the drive to use it's cache somehow) I have an A1200HD, 10M of RAM '881 FPU, with a Seagate 92144A 2.5 inch IDE drive, 16ms access, internal transfer rate of 14.5Mbits. I'm getting a rediculously low transfer rate on the drive, (197K/s on reads). Now here's where it gets interesting :), If I do a SCSI Inquire through scsi.device (which get's changed into an equiv IDE inquire?,) just before a series of reads, the transfer rate goes up to 880-900K/s, but then it drops back down to 197K/s on the next group of reads (without an Inquire before) I get the same results with Diskspeed if I cheat and have another program do the Inquire just before it does a read test. Any Ideas? Bob Comer — Cruising the nets on AutoPilot from Cheyenne, Wyoming