5 - Hardware and Software Used

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

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