Testing & Performance

To see how fast the Rally2 Turbo really is, we have to do some performance tests. For this test, we used HD Tach which gave us average read and burst speed in MB/sec as well as random access speed times. Our test system had the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Core (Q6700) @ 2.4GHZ Stock
MSI P6N SLI Platinum
MSI nVidia Geforce 8600 GT
OCZ GameXtreme 700W Power Supply
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition x86

Results
Burst speed: 31.2MB/s
Average Read: 30.6MB/s
Random Access: 0.7ms

Impressively quick as you can see. But results from a program like that don’t really mean much in a practical sense. To give you a real sense of speed, we undertook a practical test. We copied a 900MB folder full of RAW files. With the Rally2 Turbo took 2:25 minutes and with a generic 4GB drive, this was done in a measly 3:39 minutes. That’s over one whole minute slower – very impressive.