6 IDE Hard Disc Drives between 15 and 30 GBytes

Seek Time - Windows 98 SE

Seagate and Fujitsu got the best access times in Windows 98. The Quantum drive cannot hold up to them. Let's take a look at the Windows 2000 results...

Even though the Western Digital drives don't seem to be fast performers, they got quite good results so far. Voilá: The Quantum drive is the best drive in our Windows 2000 access benchmark.

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.