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

Storage

Samsung SP0802N ATA (80 GB)
Maxtor 6 Y200M0 (200GB)
WD15 00ADFD0 Raptor (150GB)
OCZ CORE SSD (64GB)

Mainboard

nVIDIA nForce 680i SLI (eVGA)

Processor

Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz

Graphics Cards

GeForce 9800 GTX+

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS4 @ 1142 MHz Dominator Corsair

Power Supply Unit

BFG 800 Watt ES

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 177.41
NVIDIA nForce 680i platform driver (latest build)

Software benchmark suite

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