How about putting ina second SATA drive and using software RAID 0 striping?

Also Sprach Guy Dallaire:

What are my options ? We can't afford to buy a beefy server just to do
backups. We are uning a centos beige commodity box. Even then, the server
seems to be I/O bound. What could I do anyway ? Buy a faster disk subsystem
? What kind of subsystem ?

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