6 IDE Hard Disc Drives between 15 and 30 GBytes

Disk Winmarks

The Business Disc WinMark of ZD's WinBench 99 Suite shows that both Western Digital drives as well as the new Seagate Barracuda ATA II are prepared for all kind of office applications.

Quantum's Fireball Plus LM drive is able to compete in the HighEnd Disc Winmark. Our reference drive, the Seagate Barracuda ATA, is clearly slower, which is due to the small cache size of only 512 kByte.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.