Test Bench
Intel Core 2 Q9450 @ 3.2 GHz
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (Bios F5a)
G. Skill Pi 2×2GB 1100 MHz CL5 DDR2
HIS Radeon HD 4850 512mb
Patriot Warp V2 64 GB SSD
Corsair TX750 750W PSU
This will be a relatively brief analysis of some raw numbers generated using HD Tune Pro 3.10 and HD Tach 3.0.4.0, tests designed to measure the transfer rates and latency of storage drives. All tests are performed on clean installations of Windows Vista x64 with the most recent versions of all appropriate drivers and defragmented using Smart Defrag 1.02 directly before performance tests. In addition to standard transfer rate benchmarks a file benchmark is performed in order to provide a more tangible assessment of real-world performance and further differentiate the standalone and RAID 0 configurations.
As always, each result presented is the result of three averaged tests.
Benchmarks
HD Tach 3.0.4.0
HD Tune 3.10
PC Mark 2005
