You must use a FireWire drive that uses an Indigita bridge board. You need the SIM extensions from Indigita . As of this writing, they are not available on the Indigita site . I've used it with 6 drives. Built-in FireWire controller driving a single VST FireWire full height 45GB drive using VST's FireWire driver.
Sustained Rate is displayed in the charts.
Although you can choose various block sizes from 1K to 1024K, I chose to display the 1024K results. I set it to play ALL frames as fast as possible. Using a stopwatch, the playback is timed to the nearest tenth of a second.