Difficult to get an idea of the performance of the hard drive before buying so many tests are on the Internet (see the home Cowcotland). Compared to a hard drive hdd performance is of course much better. The Windows 7 performance index of the hard drive is 7.8 on 7.9. Loading Windows 7 ultra fast operating system. The installation program also. The transfer rate on the disc varies according to the task performed. Personally from the Windows 7 Resource Monitor is I never saw the hard drive to run 550MB / s announced. It tops out at 400MB / s. My good for a 120GB disk performance are good. Good value for money. No freeze or other problems to report. Hard disk capacity of actually 111Go.