Building an acquisition computer. FTK Imager compression speed test.
Computer specs: This computer is a very basic machine and was built specifically for an imaging computer. Windows 7 home premium SP1 64 bit OS, Gigabyte B75M-HD3 Motherboard. Intel i3 processor 3.3GHz, and 8 GBs RAM. The target hard drive is a 1 TB Western Digital SATA 7200 RPM HDD, with 64MBs cache. It is equipped with 2 hot-swap SATA bays and a fire-wire card. The fire-wire card was installed to accommodate some of my write blockers that export via fire-wire.