04-12-2010, 08:21 AM
Trouble wrote:
Under the Mac, I am getting 50 megs/sec.
You should easily be able to break 80MB/s read-times with a single fast SATA drive connected via FW 800.
A WD Caviar Black can hit 140MB/s without RAIDing it. 'Not saying that you're gonna get that because that's under optimal conditions, but if the goal is just to break 50MB/s, almost any modern SATA drive will do.
Here are some drive benchmarks from Tom's Hardware for illustration:
