6 IDE Hard Disc Drives between 15 and 30 GBytes

Data Transfer Test: WinBench 99 Disc Inspection Test

Here you can see which drives are the fastest - and which one are the slowest. Some applications will run better is the difference between minimum and maximum transfer speed is not too big (e.g. Quantum).

The Seagate and Fujitsu hard drives are the clear performance winners here, while these numbers don't always reflect real world performance, as we can see with the Western Digital drives.

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.