It's important to note that the current crop of FireWire drives are IDE drives in FireWire clothing. Unless there is some dramatic new development, internal drives using Ultra ATA interface remain up to two times faster. Just be thankful we now have a convenient hot swappable, portable drive technology with transfer rates 15 times faster than USB drives. The drive used was a VST Full Height 22 Gig. The ATTO disk benchmark was run using Express-Pro Tools 2.3 benchmark test with 8MB maximum file size and system disk cache disabled.
Sustained Rate is displayed in the charts.
Peak rates can be impressive but do not reflect typical drive performance. MacGurus for providing the OrangeLink for testing when OrangeMicro refused to do so.