Western Digital Raptor Preview: 10,000RPM & Serial ATA

General Usage Performance (continued)

For the desktop side of things, we conclude with Office Productivity SYSMark 2002. The applications tested include:

Microsoft Word 2002
Microsoft Excel 2002,
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Microsoft Outlook 2002,
Microsoft Access 2002,
Netscape Communicator® 6.0
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred v.5
WinZip 8.0
McAfee VirusScan 5.13.

Once again we only have the trace results for Office Productivity SYSMark 2002, but we use them to confirm our previous findings:

Office Productivity SYSMark 2002 Disk Performance Performance in I/O Operations per Second (Higher is better) Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB (120GB PATA) Maxtor Atlas 10K IV (36GB U320 SCSI) Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (80GB PATA) IBM Deskstar 180GXP (185.2GB PATA) Seagate Cheetah 10K.6 (36.7GB U320 SCSI) Western Digital Raptor WD360 (36.7GB SATA) Seagate Barracuda Serial ATA V (80GB SATA) Seagate Barracuda ATA V (120GB PATA) 503 420 394 386 321 321 294 287 | 0 | 101 | 201 | 302 | 402 | 503 | 604

As we saw with ICC SYSMark 2002, the Office Productivity tests treat the SCSI drives much more favorably, but still appreciate the performance of the WD1200JB. The Raptor manages to do a bit better here, but still falls near the bottom of the pack in performance.