Nope, because you are working with large file transfer.  Maxtor HDs, however, are optimized for reading/writing large chunk of data like video files.

F.

simpswr wrote.

"If used strictly for playback, would  there be any advantage to the 8 Mg buffer versus the 2 Mg?"

In this case very little, the point of an 8MB buffer on a large drive is to match the performance of a smaller drive (20GB or so) with a 2MB buffer.

Bev.