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Drive speeds with HDTach and compression speed with WinRAR.

WinRAR did okay, I guess.

Unfortunately, our SATA figures aren't in yet due to a complication with the Silicon Image SATA driver, and or the Nvidia SATA driver and or controller. It seems that despite my best efforts, I can't get this driver to install and or function properly. It won't take when installing Windows. It won't install from the desktop or command prompt. I even built a slipstreamed install disk of WinXP with the appropriate SATA drivers tucked in. But to no avail, I could not get it running. You win some, and you loose some. This difficulty with SATA communications may be solved come Windows XP Service Pack 3, due out by early to mid summer this year.

The Average Read and CPU Usage rates look decent enough though.