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 internal 2.5 inch hard drive.
The Western Digital Scorpio 7,200 rpm mechanical drive isn't the fastest, but to be fair under general use it seems a lot more responsive than some we have tested recently. We will revisit these tests later in the review after fitting a performance solid state drive.