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Date |
: Sept 19th, 2001 |
| Category |
: Storage |
| Manufacturer |
: Western Digital |
| Author |
: Jin-Wei Tioh |
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| HDD |
Business |
High-End |
| IBM
Deskstar 60GXP (40.0GB ATA-100) |
4960 |
17700 |
| Quantum
Fireball Plus AS (20.0GB ATA-100) |
5010 |
15500 |
| Seagate
Barracuda ATA IV (80.0GB ATA-100) |
5350 |
17700 |
| Western
Digital Caviar WD1000BB (100.0GB ATA-100) |
4870 |
18400 |
Surprisingly, the Caviar WD1000BB comes out behind all drives in the Business Disk WinMark, nipping at the heels of both IBM Deskstars. The Barracuda remains the undisputed champion. In the High-End Disk WinMark, the WD1000BB turns in a most impressive 18.4MB/s, besting our previous record holders (the IBM Deskstar 60GXP and Seagate Barracuda ATA IV) by about 4%. All in all, quite consistent with theory.
It is not clear cut which is the superior drive under WinBench 99. The Caviar WD1000BB sets new records for the inner-zone STR and High-End Disk WinMark, but fails to overthrow the Barracuda's outer-zone STR and Business Disk WinMark scores. There is no single, overall winner, but one can approximately place both the Caviar on par with the Barracuda.
As mentioned in our last hard drive evaluation, IOMeter is more seek time dependant, whereas WinBench 99 scores rest more on a drive's transfer rate. The Caviar WD1000BB should fare better than the Barracuda ATA IV under IOMeter, though with its lagging seek time shouldn't upset the IOMeter rankings much. Let's see if Intel's IOMeter deviates from this point of view.
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