Now let’s check the performance of our drives in Business Disk Winmark and High-End Disk Winmark:

Hm.. It looks as if WD740GD has finally managed to take revenge for the failure in server patterns of Intel IOMeter. It is at least 1.5 times faster in Winbench than the SCSI HDDs. And in the Business test its advantage grew up to two times!

In case of a 32GB logical partition all HDDs performed a little bit faster overall, but the situation with the participants ranking remained the same. WD740GD is ahead of all with a huge advantage.

Now let’s take a look at the performance in NTFS file system:

Well, it looks as if only absolute performance values have changed. But wait, in the Business test WD740GD is more than twice as fast as the SCSI HDDs.

Times change, but they cannot change everything. WD hard disk drives are still very powerful in Winbench99 although they also owe a lot to the SATA controller drivers, as we have just seen.