 Winstone 2004 |
Source: Zdnet |
|
Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications
through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete
these activities to produce its performance scores.
Hard drive speed certainly makes a difference here in Business Winstone 2004.
Not sure if a user would notice the bump, since these office application benchmarks
are generally user limited.
|
SiSoft Sandra 2005 |
Source:Sandra |
|
Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of
a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also
purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.
| Sisoft Sandra
2005 Storage Benchmark Results |
| Drives |
Drive Index: |
Random Read: |
Sequential Read: |
Random Write: |
Sequential Write: |
Average Access time: |
| Western Digital Raptor WD740 HDD |
63 |
45 |
65 |
50 |
65 |
5 |
| Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD HDD |
55 |
43 |
62 |
45 |
62 |
9 |
|
Units: |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
milliseconds |
The overall bandwidth numbers are very close between
these two WD hard drives. Average access times differ a little, but the
Caviar SE16 WD4000KD scores within a few MB/s.
HD Tach is a physical performance hard drive test for Windows 95/98/ME and
Windows NT/2000. In Windows 9X/ME it uses a special kernel mode VXD to get
maximum accuracy by bypassing the file system. A similar mechanism is used in
Windows NT/2000/XP. HD Tach reads from areas all over the hard drive and reports
an average speed. It also logs the read speeds to a text file that you can load
into a spreadsheet and graph to visually read the results of the test.
|
Hard Drive Tach 3.0.1.0
- Benchmark Results |
|
Physical Drive Size |
Access Time |
Read Burst Speed |
Read Speed Max |
Read Speed Min |
Read
speed
Avg |
CPU utilization |
| Western Digital Raptor WD740 HDD |
74GB |
7.5 |
128.6 |
72 |
53 |
65 |
3 |
| Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD HDD |
400GB |
12.9 |
139.4 |
66 |
37 |
56.9 |
5 |
|
Units: |
|
ms |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
MB/s |
% |
The large 400GB Caviar SE16's data read rates are very
high, matching the Raptor's quite closely. When it comes to data access however, the
Raptor and its 10,000 RPM spindle speed really makes a difference here.
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