On my A500, similar spec to yours, I also get just over 1 meg a second according to SysInfo. 68010/WB 3.1 and one of the GVP A500 HD+ units with 4 megs onboard and the latest 4.15 ROM. It's an old 85 meg drive though, wonder how much drive cache and actual drive performance affect this? I.e., if you stuck in a screaming 15K RPM drive with a ton of cache memory, think the A500 would benefit any?