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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.
4K performance of the ageing Vertex 2 SSD is strong, but it can't match the modern powerhouses such as OCZ's own Vertex 4 and Crucial's M4. Then again, the Vertex 2 SSD's real world performance will be perfectly adequate for daily and gaming usage.
Good sequential numbers are posted by the 1TB HDD. As a storage drive, high sequential read and write transfer rates are beneficial.
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We couldn't reach the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD's rated speeds of 285MB/s sequential read and 275MB/s sequential write, as shown by the image on the left. This is due to Windows and background processes limiting the drive's performance.
The right-side image shows that Seagate's 1TB ST1000DM003 Barracuda 7200.14 HDD is able offer excellent sequential read and write speeds, managing to surpass the 200MB/s barrier.
