Workstation Pattern

The Workstation pattern simulates the typical load on a workstation at request queue depths up to 32. This test was performed on the full capacity of the drives as well as on 32GB partitions created on them.

To calculate the overall performance rating of a drive in this test, we use the following formula:

Performance = Total I/O (queue=1)/1 + Total I/O (queue=2)/2 + Total I/O (queue=4)/4 + Total I/O (queue=8)/8 + Total I/O (queue=16)/16 + Total I/O (queue=32)/32.

The Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS is a leader in this test; its results are similar to those of the Toshiba MK1234GSX. The Samsung SpinPoint M60S HM120JI takes sixth place in the diagram and is followed, although at a rather big distance, by the Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 HTS541612J9AT00.