Asus G74SX-91013Z 17.3 inch Notebook Review

A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance. We use two of our favourite benchmark utilities Crystalmark X64 Edition and HD Tach to rate performance from the onboard SATA controller.

You won't see better scores than this for a 2.5 inch mechanical drive. The 7,200 rpm Western Digital Scorpio units are very quick. That said, this is considerably slower than any of the solid state drives released in the last year and sadly it can be ‘felt' under real world terms in Windows. Still, with 1.5TB of storage many people will be happy enough to sacrifice some performance.

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ATTO measures peak performance around 130MB/s in the sequential read and write test, which is strong for a 2.5 inch mechanical drive.

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