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. We are using a 6Gb/s capable connector which is controlled by the Marvel 9128 chipset.
Sata 6Gb throughput is certainly not lacking and the Marvell controller delivers very impressive levels of performance from the 256gb Crucial C300 SSD.