Harddisks IDE
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Harddisk

IBM Deskstar 75GXP

 IBM Deskstar 60GXP Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 45 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X Quantum Fireball Plus LM Quantum Fireball Plus AS Seagate Barracuda ATA III Seagate Barracuda ATA IV Western Digital Caviar BB IBM Deskstar 40GV Maxtor DiamondMax VL40 Western Digital Caviar AB
Benchmark (Mb/s)
Business Disk WinMark 99 7653 7720 7840 8193 9100 6713 7997 7470 8127 8413 5807 6830 7400
Highend Disk WinMark 99 19367 20733 18700 20333 21733 16033 17700 16967 21033 19967 13100 16767 18600
AVS/Express 3.4 22600 23000 19267 20533 20900 19200 21533 20600 20567 17433 15267 16333 15400
FrontPage 98 98567 97133 102800 102533 98467 83467 101533 101433 96433 103333 84433 91267 96167
MicroStation SE
31267
30700
27900
30233

30976
27100
29700
29700
30267
26633
24167
24000
26600
Photoshop 4.0 10200 11033 9267 10433 11367 8980 9863 9380 10733 10167 7503 8393 9160
Premiere 4.2 14233 16100 16333 17900 17800 12167 11967 12333 17533 16667 8630 15600 15833
SoundForge 4.0 19500 23567 17900 19433 25667 14233 18667 15100 24767 27167 13333 16067 26267
Visual C++ 17433 18133 1937 20200 20467 13900 14833 15200 19967 19867 10933 17233 19133
Read Transfer Rate x
Beginning 37200 39033 32600 38433 41700 26800 35300 40567 42433 33600 30367 29800 35100
End 19700 21300 21700 22900 25400 20300 20700 26400 27200 23500 14933 17500 20900
Access Time (ms) 12.4 12.3 12.9 13.1 12.2 11.5 13.2 15.4 13.9 13.9 14.7 15.8 14.9
CPU Utilization (%) 0.58 0.59 0.51 0.51 0.62 0.53 0.57 0.40 0.55 0.43 0.55 0.51 0.51

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