John H Goodwin

For fun, I thought I'd post a few benchmarks of my system.

1x Core 2 Duo E6600 - updated 2007-11-16

• 1x Core 2 Duo E6600
• 4x 1GB DDR2 (800) PC2-6400 OCZ Platinum XTC
• 4x 320GB Seagate 7200 RPM SATA
• 1x 500GB Seagate 7200 RPM SATA
• 1x 300GB External USB 2.0/Firewire
  • 1x Metal Gear Box 3.5" External USB 2.0/Firewire
  • 1x 300GB Seagate 7200 RPM PATA
• 1x Athena Power BP-SATA2131B 2 x 5.25"Bays to 3 x 3.5"HD (SATA)
• 1x GIGABYTE GV-NX76T256D-RH GeForce 7600GT 256MB
• 1x Creative Labs Audigy 4 PCI
• 1x Samsung DVD+/-R(W) Burner SH-S182M
• 1x ENERMAX FMA II EG565P-VE ATX12V 535W Power Supply
• 1x Antec P180 black case
• 1x GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965
• 1x ThermalTake BigTyphoon 120mm CPU cooler
• 1x PCI slot cooling fan
• 1x 3.5" beige floppy drive

1x Dell 24" 2407WFPb Monitor - updated 2007-11-16

Windows XP Professional 64bit (as primary host system)

VMWare guests for most work run inside host system

On the host system, I benchmarked one of the single 320 SATA drives used for my backups in my hotswap enclosure with just my startup apps running.

After that, I tried my RAID 0:

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