Application performance index
The next test was the H2Bench application test, based on a reproduction of reading/writing made on the hard drive in various uses (disc swap, software installation, file copy and the following applications Word, Photoshop and F-Prot). This test is made on the first 40 GB of the hard drive. These results also depend on the test configuration and shouldn’t be directly compared with previous tests.
Hitachi was first and even the good old 180GXP was ahead of the new hard drives, despite a density of 60 GB per disc. The 7K250 provided the best performance. There was a 4% difference between the SATA and ATA version. This gap can also be due to differences on the firmware level.
Next were the Western and Seagate SATA hard drives. Maxtor’s hard drives had poor results probably due to the concession on access time. In last place was the 7200.7 in ATA version. This result is only logical because it has the highest access time due to a standard and non-modifiable AAM activation.
