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SHORTCUTS:
Accepting a Narrow Bus
Internal vs. Interface Performance
HDTach: ATA vs. SATA
HDTach vs. WinBench99 vs. PCMark
Parallel ATA Command Overhead
Streamlined SATA FIS, Prelude to Performance
WinBench99 Overview
Winbench99 Details
Business Winstone2002, File Copy
Conclusions

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 Seagate Barracuda SATA-V    
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(Review by MS, February 4)
WinBench99 High-End Disk WinMarks: The Details

The filter drivers provide for a healthy performance boost in single or RAID 0 configuration.


These numbers are off the scale of what is actually possible and most likely we are looking at total bus saturation. We only report these scores for reasons of completeness but otherwise we will disregard them as misrepresentation.

Microstation SE is, once again, dominated by the SATA drives.

Photoshop 4.0 has always been a domain of the IBM drives in the past.

Premiere 4.2 is dominated by the cache size or other internal drive performance characteristics.

Same as above, the differences between the base and filter drivers and the Parallel vs.Serial Barracuda ATA V are not relevant.

The only category within WinBench99 where the SATA drives fall behind.

WinBench results give some ideas about what is going on, especially with respect to interface performance dependence on the drivers. Keep in mind that the new nVidia IDE drivers are only supported in Service Pack1 under Windows XP and will not work with all devices.

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