Originally Posted By: Virtual1
...It's not so much a question of hardware than of software. In particular, performance hits...
I totally agree.
What I ment by "doing fine" is that for me it is just not showing any drawbacks (like occasional noticeable performance hits, etc.). So hardware and software seem to cooperate quite well.
Transfer rates are well above 80 MB/s for both reading and writing (disk is 21% full) - not too bad for a drive which is tuned for lower power consumption (Caviar Green), and I never got the feeling that the drive was just taking a coffee break.