WinBench99 2.0

WinBench99 veteran is doing just fine and can still tell us a lot about the “everyday” HDD performance:

WinBench proves that the average access time of 6Y080L0 is a little worse than that of 6Y060L0, while Seagate suddenly appeared much slower. The explanation is very simple: last time we tested a different Seagate Barracuda ATA V. As you see, things are not so stable by Seagate and the first unit we tested was a little faster.

Let’s start our WinMark analysis with FAT32:

The new DiamondMax easily defeats its competitors in professional applications (High-End WinMark), but in “regular” applications it yielded about 5% to IBM. The “old” 6Y0080L0 won the third prize. I dare suppose that it is a different firmware version that we could blame for this lag.

For some reason the new 6Y080L0 won in UDMA100 protocol, while its predecessors, were almost always faster in UDMA133. Let’s find out which particular tests helped Maxtor win.

During Video editing IBM is ahead, then follows Maxtor. To tell the truth, we do not know exactly, what HE: FrontPage actually measures, but here the new solution from Maxtor has almost catch up with the IBM drive. In Microstation there is no progress, and in Photoshop Maxtor improved its performance and left the competitors noticeably behind. In Premiere all HDDs ran equally fast. But during sound processing the new Maxtor showed really brilliant performance. So, I have every right to state that the lazy write algorithms have been significantly improved in the new firmware version. The last test also showed the advantages of the new 6Y080L0, which allows us to state that the work with smaller files has also been polished-off.