Wouls anybody know if there is a good utility out there for monitoring in realtime the read and write speeds/data throughput of my IDE HD's?

Simple, and yet for some reason, seemingly elusive. I know there's probably an option in XP's system tools, or some manner of snap-in for it, but it would bve nice just to have something quick, easy, accurate, nice and easy on the eyes, and above all, specific to look at.

Pick your choice from these utils: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/

Nice. Much appreciated

Or just use any of the disk counters in the always overlooked "Performance Logs and Alerts" utility that comes builtin with Windows..