In our Blender 3D rendering tests, the Dell Stuaveraged a time of 55sec, which is faster than the 60sec achieved by the 2.26GHz, Intel Core i5-430M-based Dell Inspiron 15R N5010 notebook, but nevertheless this result was a little slower than what we expected. However, it still wasn't as fast as the hard drive in the Dell Inspiron M501R quad-core notebook, which averaged 40MBps. The system drive averaged a very quick 36.27 megabytes per second (MBps) in our transfer tests, so the overall performance of the Dell Studio 1749 will be relatively swift in applications that require data to be duplicated, such as file compression.
The hard drives aren't installed in a RAID array, instead they are separate drives so that you can use one for the operating system and applications and the other for your data. The Dell Studio 1749's specifications are solid not only do you get a fast 2.53GHz Intel Core i5-540M CPU, it also includes 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics adapter and - most impressively - it has two 500GB, 7200rpm hard drives. Dell Stulaptop: Specifications and performance