[Laurence Payne]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:48:00 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

That would be the effective transfer rate. One way to shoot transfer rate in
the foot is to have a second independent process that is putting seeks on
the drive. If your system has only 1 drive and is swapping heavily while
you are recording, then you are cruising for a bruising.

But why on Earth WOULD it be "swapping heavily" (whatever that means?)
Sure, you can sabotage any recording by running another disk-intensive
process behind it. Which is why you don't :-)