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Date |
: Dec 15th, 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 |
| Western
Digital Caviar WD1200BB (120.0GB ATA-100) |
5450 |
19800 |
The Caviar WD1000BB had a surprising stumble on the Business Disk WinMark, with a score of 4.87MB/s which fell behind the other 7200RPM drives. The WD1200BB alleviates this with its figure of 5.45MB/s, beating the previous leader (the Barracuda IV) by 2%, and improving upon the WD1000BB by a whopping 12%! In the High-End Disk WinMarks, the WD1200BB is simply unrivalled.
This time around, there is a clear cut winner in WinBench 99, certainly a nice change from when different drives dominated different tests. The WD1200BB comes out as the top performing drive.
The Deskstar 60GXP's top spot in IOMeter shouldn't be upset by the WD1200BB though, due to its superior seek time. Let's supplant speculation with hard data.
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