On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 13:19 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > not even worth the bother. SATA DVD-RW drives that are probably 6X > better than the last ATA versions are $19. SATA hard disks are dirt > cheap for terabytes. Wish we had those low prices in England. Buyers should be aware that HDDs can vary in performance. I always check with http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/ and select 'searchable HDD list' I always buy high performance at the lowest possible price. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.