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Thanks, this looks pretty useful :-) Best MM

Hi Can anyone give some best practice guidance on setting up my Mac so that my DVD player can connect to it using SMB for streaming movies and audio. I have enabled the smb service in 'System Preferences > Sharing', and created a new user called 'dvdplayer'. Ideally, I wanted an SMB only...

Xbench looks great :-) Thank you!

Hi I hadn't tried the 'System Profiler', but this is not what I am looking for. I'd like to run some writes and reads to both disks, and look at the performance. The type of tests magazines run when comparing systems and hard disks... Thanks anyway Gareth

Hi Are there any tools I can use to measure the read and write speeds of the hard disk on my new Intel Mac Mini? I want to compare the 80Gb internal drive, to an external Lacie firewire unit. Any useful info would be much appreciated. Many thanks Gareth