diff --git a/src/rateLimiter.c b/src/rateLimiter.c
index f4f29b6..917b06c 100644
--- a/src/rateLimiter.c
+++ b/src/rateLimiter.c
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 #include "rateLimiter.h"
 #include "utils/min.h"
 
-//How many bytes we can write to disk per second: 100 MB - TODO: need to use a better value for this
-#define DISK_SPEED 100UL * 1024UL * 1024UL
+//How many bytes we can write to disk per second: 2 MB - TODO: need to use a better value for this
+#define DISK_SPEED 2UL * 1024UL * 1024UL
 /** If we are not writing to disk, how many seconds the capacity can keep increasing before it reaches the limit.
  * Increasing this value can result in a spike of data once we are writing to disk again, but then allows the data
  * to quickly be written without having to wait for capacity to be available. */