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Reese, Thanks for the reply. On this system, using CDSPEED bp:h:\ C:8192 s:off will also result in 8 buffers and 68 files as defaults, which is the configuration I've been using for the comparisons with Speedcache+. Using Mammals as a test application may not be the best way to test various caching combinations, since, on on my moderately fast system at least, the Mammals movies run pretty smoothly with NO cache at all. Running motion video clips from Windows is a far more demanding test, I think, because of the multi-tasking that may be going on, and because of the processing overhead imposed by the Windows GUI itself. The clips I've been using are just miserable with no caching, quite a bit better with Speedway and best (so far) with Speedcache+. Increasing the cache size here isn't likely to help; the biggest of the aircraft movie clips is around 3.5 megabytes, so an 8mb cache is plenty. With background reads and partial file reads, Speedway should be a real contender, since it appears to have a good foundation on which to build. Regards, Tom