Performance in Intel IOMeter Workstation Pattern

This pattern features a lot of write requests and this should mean some changes on the podium, although Raptor is very unlikely to be defeated by anyone else.

Yes, WD740GD is unreachable, but other drives changed their positions in the results table: IBM-Hitachi drives gave up the fight and didn’t even make it to the “top five”. Maxtor 6L080L4 continues to surprise us – its good results have become a tendency.

Now we reduce the address space of the hard disk drives to 32GB and repeat the test.

Performance in Intel IOMeter Workstation 32 Pattern

By narrowing the operational zone for the disks we boosted their performance. The ranks remained the same, only Maxtor 6Y080M0 dropped from the fifth to the eighth place.

This is the last synthetic Intel IOMeter pattern; we can now switch to WinBench 99.