Cyberpower Gaming Battalion 502 Windows 8 PC Review (FX 4170 / Radeon 7770)

A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance. We use one of our favourite benchmark utilities – CrystalDiskMark X64 Edition – to rate performance from the on-board SATA controller.

Seagate's high-capacity 7200.14 hard drive is able to offer excellent sequential performance of around 200MB/s read and write. Unlike many of today's SSDs, the HDD's excellent performance doesn't drop when incompressible data is used.

While the high sequential transfer rates may be excellent for copying data back and forth, it's the 4K scores that indicate a system's general ‘snappiness' – an area where hard drives simply cannot compete with SSDs.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.

ATTO backs-up the CrystalDiskMark results to show that the Seagate 7200.14's sequential performance is very competitive for a hard drive.

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