| Article Index |
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| Western Digital 750GB SATA-II Caviar RE2 Review |
| Page 2 - PC Mark05 |
| Page 3 - SiSoft Sandra |
| Page 4 - HD Tune |
| Page 5 - Conclusion |
| All Pages |
First Test – PCMark05
The first cab of the rank is PCMark05’s hard drive test suite, which tests a number of different usage situations instead of just the drives ability to read or write a huge file as quickly as it can:
These first results really did surprise me as I was not expecting the RE2 to be so much quicker than its desktop counterpart the SE16. In the general usage test we see the RE2 has a 22% speed increase over the SE16 as well as the Barracuda. Application loading see’s the RE2 with a 15-17% increase over the other two drives and XP Start-up with a 12 and 20% increase. All very substantial performance gains for drives with very similar specifications.
The second set of PCMark05 tests focus more on the drives throughput ability, and in this case we see the two Western Digital drives performing very similar to one another with the lower priced SE16 coming out slightly in front, while the Seagate Barracuda jumps around the graph a bit. The Barracuda is significantly slower on the virus scan test with the RE2 being a whopping 33% faster, while the Barracuda gains back some ground in the file write test, being almost 10% faster than the RE2 and 5% faster than the SE16.
