The test bench was composed from the following hardware:

CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock

Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS

RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

ASUS U3S6 Adapter Card

 

The drives comes formatted, with only one NTFS partition:

With AIDA64 Ultimate software tool, we can extract more information regarding the HDD inside:

Preloaded on the HDD we can also find the Hitachi Backup application, for both Mac and Windows:

The program can be installed by following the written instructions:

Hitachi Backup has a simple interface which is split in two; on the top we can specify the folders we want to make a backup to and they will be copied to the Hitachi drive; on the bottom we can enter the same settings, but this time for the free 3GB cloud storage space:

If we click on Local Settings option, we can find the area where we can specify the folders that should be backed up, along with the Schedule and History Settings:

The Cloud Settings menu holds some extra options that we can modify, like the one to skip files larger than 200MB or can specify Bandwidth allocation: