SATA II to the Power of 3.0Gb/sec: Three Drives Reviewed

SYSMark 2004 Performance Summary

These scores represent the overall performance of each component of SYSMark 2004.

Like the results of Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004, each of the U300 drive's came in at the top of the list, again with Western Digital's WD1600JS at first place. Samsung's HD160JJ comes in at 3rd (NCQ on) and 5th (NCQ off) with scores of 212 and 211 while Hitachi's T7K250 comes in at 2nd (NCQ off) and 4th (NCQ on) again, with scores of 212 and 211 respectively.

To recap , here's what happens in the entire Office Productivity suite:

"In this scenario, the office productivity user creates a marketing presentation and supporting documents for a new product. The user receives email containing a collection of documents in a compressed file. The user reviews his email and updates his calendar while a virus checking software scans the system. The corporate web site is viewed and the user begins creating the collateral documents. The user also accesses a database and runs some queries. A collection of documents are compressed. The queries' results are imported into a spreadsheet and used to generate graphical charts. The user then transcribes a document. Once the document has all the necessary pieces in place, the user changes it into a portable format for easy and secure distribution. The user edits and adds elements to a slide show template. Finally, the user looks at the results of his work (both the slide show and the portable document) in an Internet browser."

In the end, all three SATA300 drives come out on top of the SATA150 drives with SYSMark 2004 ratings between 195 and 201. The doubled transfer rates really came through in the Content Creation tests..