A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance so we used two of our favourite benchmark utilities Crystalmark X64 Edition and HD Tach to rate the Western Digital 2.5 inch Scorpio Blue SATA drive.
Hard Drive performance while lacking compared to a Solid State unit, is pretty good for a mechanical 2.5 inch unit. It is extremely quiet, but we would probably replace the product with an SSD, given the option.