Test Environment & equipment

Hardware and Software Used

Now we begin the benchmark portion of this article, but first let me show you our test system plus the software we used.

Storage

Patriot Warp Series SSD v2 MLC (128GB)
Silicon Power SSD SLC (32GB)
Samsung SP0802N ATA (80 GB)
Maxtor 6 Y200M0 (200GB)
WD15 00ADFD0 Raptor (150GB)
OCZ CORE SSD MLC (64GB)
G.Skill SSD MLC (64GB)

Mainboard

ASUS X58 ROG edition Rampage II Extreme
Processor

Core i7 965 @ 3750 MHz (3.6 + Turbo mode).

Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX 260 SP216 (65nm)
 

Memory

6144 MB (3x 2048 MB) DDR3 1800 MHz OCZ @ 1500 MHz

Power Supply Unit

1200 Watt

Monitor

Dell 3007WFP - up-to 2560x1600

OS related Software

Windows Vista Business Edition 32-bit SP1
DirectX 9.0c/10 End User Runtime June update
NVIDIA ForceWare 182.05
 

Software benchmark suite

PCMark vantage HDD test Test 1 to 8
ATTO Disk benchmark v2.02
SiSoft Sandra Storage Benchmark
HDTach 3.0.4.0