IDE hard disks roundup (September 2000)

By Nicholas Dorofeev

Windows 98 SE

WD153BA
WD450AA
WD75DA
Quantum lct15
Business Disk WinMark 99 (thousand bytes/sec)
3650(58.82%)
5250 (57.79%)
4440(49.67%)
3920 (44.22%)
High-End Disk WinMark 99 (tb/s)
14600 (36.39%)
13900(35.33%)
11700(29.49%)
12400 (27.48%)
Disk Transfer Rate: Beginning (tb/s)
24900(13.7%)
25500 (8.95%)
22000 (11.9%)
20100 (10.9%)
Disk Transfer Rate: End (tb/s)
16800 (13.7%)
16900 (8.95%)
13600 (11.9%)
13300 (10.9%)
Disk Access Time (ms)
13.7 (3.48%)
15.87 (2.81%)
24.5 (1.11%)
18.2 (1.11%)
Disk CPU Utilization (Percent Used)
11.3
6.98
5.32
9.92
High-End Disk WinMark 99
Disk Playback/HE: AVS/Express 3.4 (tb/s)
9990
9050
7610
9970
Disk Playback/HE: FrontPage 98 (tb/s)
36500
36800
35600
35600
Disk Playback/HE: MicroStation SE (tb/s)
14500
14100
11900
13100
Disk Playback/HE: Photoshop 4.0 (tb/s)
9130
8910
7030
6620
Disk Playback/HE: Premiere 4.2 (tb/s)
13700
12900
11100
12600
Disk Playback/HE: Sound Forge 4.0 (tb/s)
27600
24400
23100
22600
Disk Playback/HE: Visual C++ 5.0 (tb/s)
15700
15600
13700
12200