Dell XPS 8300 Review (Core i5/Nvidia)

Dell are using two 1TB hard drives configured into a RAID 0 (striped configuration). This is a particularly good move to enhance performance, although if one of the drive fails, then the partition is lost. There is no fault tolerance with Raid 0.

Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.

We would expect to get a score of around 130-140 MB/s with a single 7,200rpm mechanical hard drive, so the results are spot on, indicating performance around 265 MB/s in the CrystalDiskMark sequential read test. Obviously the 4k performance is much lower than a Solid State Drive.

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ATTO Disk Benchmark verifies the previous results, showing maximum performance in the 280 MB/s read and 250 MB/s write sector. Including two drives in RAID 0 is a very good move to boost overall system responsiveness and performance.

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