Let’s now consider the results in two integral tests: Business Disk Winmark and High-End Disk Winmark.

Our leader, WD740GD, feels some competition in the High-End Disk Winmark test – Maxtor 6Y080P0 is very close. The Maxtor drive is followed by the drive from the same family, but with the SATA interface, the 6Y080M0 model. However, the two of them are not very good in Business Disk Winmark (fourth and fifth positions, respectively). The second place (I guess you understand who the winner is) goes to WD800JB, while WD800LB doesn’t show remarkable results.

Evidently, WinBench favors drives with an 8MB cache buffer.

Now, the same tests are run on a logical volume 32GB big.

As the size of the disk drive is getting smaller, we don’t see any significant changes, only Maxtor 6Y080P0 and 6Y080M0 swap places in Business Disk Winmark test.

Let’s turn to the NTFS file system now.

Speeds have subsided in comparison to FAT32 and the gaps between the drives have diminished. Six out of seven HDDs with an 8MB cache buffer take top positions in the table. Strangely enough, Seagate ST380023AS is only the twelfth in High-End Disk Winmark, although takes the sixth place in Business Disk Winmark.

Concluding our WinBench 99 tests, we offer you the results of the drives in NTFS on a 32GB logical volume.

I think it is all clear without my comments. Let’s get to our File Copy Test.