Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using V3.0.3 x64. We use this program to test the onboard Western Digital hard disk.
The Western Digital Velociraptor has nothing like the performance of a solid state disk, but it has plenty of bandwidth for a hard disk, thanks to its 10,000rpm rotational speed.
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.
The ATTO results bear out those of CrystalMark, with reads and writes around the region of 180MB/sec.