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| (Review by MS, September 15, 2002) |
WinBench98 Business Performance
Some of the numbers we were getting here appeared somewhat unbelievable and we re-ran every test multiple times to make sure that there were no misreportings. It did not help, the results did not change. The results for the Maxtor D740X-6L are within the same range as what we found in our earlier review using a different platform
Business Disk Playback
Throughput in 1000 Bytes/sec: The three candidates are the Barracuda SATA V, and the Maxtor D740X-6L using either the on-board VIA IDE controller or else the Promise PDC 20367 onboard ATA / SATA controller. The Barracuda V literally destroys the competition and this pattern will persist throughout the entire rest of benchmarks. Some portion of the performance edge needs to be attributed to the larger cache (8 MB vs. 2 MB on the Maxtor drive) and a more fair comparison would have been to pit the Barracuda V against the WesternDigital LE series, alas, we didn't have one for testing.
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