HD Tune: Hitachi HTS542525K9S Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 27.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 58.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 44.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.5 ms
Burst Rate : 74.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 53.1%

I can't post images for some reason.

I decided against the 30 gb ssd, I haven't the ching for 2 for a raid, and the battery savings for my laptop is only 7% from what I read, so I can't justify it like that if it didn't speed up my OS at home tons...thanks for this thread, it's nice to see what what's out there.

I'm waiting on a WD Black 640, I took the chance hoping it's as fast the Cavier, I'll post results if I can figure out how to install sata on my Gigabyte 780 board.