Bitey said:
Toast is not fail sir, it just looks at the glass as half empty and doesn’t get your hopes up. Because realistically you may be downloading at fast speeds but you will only be able to receive the information as fast as your hard drive can process it. But you guys already know that.
Seagate Barracuda maximum I/O data transfer rate (Mbytes/sec Max): 300 (Ultra DMA 5 Mode).
300 MBps is a great deal more than 20Mbps. (120 times the speed of the internet connection to be exact). I don’t think HDD I/O writes are the problem. It also interfaces at 3.0 Gbps maximum write (150 million times the speed of the internet connection). Pretty sure it’s just a *edited*ty website for speed test evaluation. Cache the page and the reload it and you can triple your score…that already makes it a trivial test.
Speeds pulled from: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support…/100468393f.pdf Seagate barracuda product manual.