WinBench 99 Tests for HDDs Formatted for Their Full Storage Capacity

The following tests don’t care about the “size” of the drive (the difference between a 160GB and a 137GB drive is unimportant), so we can take the Seagate ST3160023AS fw 3.05 back into our competition.

Let’s examine the results in the FAT32 file system. We got a mountain of numbers, so we divided the results table into parts and linked to them:

• Hitachi (results);
• Maxtor (results);
• Samsung (results);
• Seagate (results);
• Western Digital (results).

It took a while to put all the data into diagrams, but did it anyway. Let’s now discuss the drives’ results in two integral tests: Business Disk Winmark and High-End Disk Winmark.

Maxtor’s 6Y160M0 and 6Y160P0 took the first two positions in the High-End test, far ahead of the rest of the drives. The Samsung SP1614N climbed its deserved third place, with a good gap from the others, too.

Western Digital got the podium in the Business test with its WD1600JB, WD1600JD/80 and WD1800JB models.

Now, let’s run these tests again in NTFS.

You can see the full data by the following links:

• Hitachi (results);
• Maxtor (results);
• Samsung (results);
• Seagate (results);
• Western Digital (results).

Maxtor’s 6Y160M0 and 6Y160P0 not only kept their leadership, but also widened the gap. The Samsung SP1614N lost its third place to the Hitachi IC35180AVV207-1. In the Business test, Western Digital couldn’t confirm its superiority – its best disk, the WD1800JB, occupies the fifth place only, while the first position is shared between the Maxtor 6Y160P0 and the Hitachi HDS722516VLAT80.

WinBench 99 Tests for HDDs Formatted as 32GB Storage Space

We decrease the disk space to 32GB and run the tests once again.

• Hitachi (results);
• Maxtor (results);
• Samsung (results);
• Seagate (results);
• Western Digital (results).

Save for minor changes, the positions remained the same; only the gaps between the drives diminished somewhat. The two Maxtors remained in the lead, while the SATA-interfaced disk from Samsung, the SP1614C, stepped up to the third place.

Let’s repeat the tests on a 32GB partition in NTFS:

• Hitachi (results);
• Maxtor (results);
• Samsung (results);
• Seagate (results);
• Western Digital (results).

Like in the previous case, there’re no surprises – the top of the diagram is still the domain of Maxtor, and the Samsung SP1614N again stepped once position higher. Otherwise, it’s all the same…

For detailed results of WinBench 99 you can follow this link.

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