For more details on each of the benchmarks please see here and here respectively. The drives are always formatted before use. We opted for this over a direct point-to-point connection because we wanted to simulate real-world performance. One of the computers must act as the server and will sit waiting for a connection. The other computer acts as a client. BIOSTAR Motherboard A68n-5200 AMD APU A4-5200 Ddr3 16gb SATA PCIExpress Mini-itx It connects to the server machine and sends data[…]