I s'pose you could tell my transfer speeds which drive was inside. I need to check mine. I will say that it's pretty snappy. Mine was doing transfers of files around 15MB-100MB and was hitting around 110MB/sec write speed.
I agree with blinx on that too...8 was weird for the first day or two...then I realized how freaking fast it is and that the start menu is now a screen. There's always google if you can't figure something out too!
Not that I ever had issues with. When you make changes in the BIOS and save them and restart, it does the pause and restart dance, but never once had an issue with restarting with it. BIOS is fully updated to last known update before I dismantled to build my i7 system.