MaximumPC 2001 11

The 3TB Western Digital

Caviar Green. Actual size

shown here.

IN THE LAB^

REVIEWS OF THE LATEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE

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HDTune 4.01

Avg Read (MB/s) 96.1 75.9 93.2

Random-Access Read (ms) 15.4 15.0 16.2

Avg Write (MB/s) 92.8 76.7 91.2

Random-Access Write (ms) 15.6 15.1 16.3

Burst Write (MB/s) 200.7 197.5 178.4

Premiere Pro Encode (sec) 449 412 385

PCMark Vantage 3,987 3,937 4,394

BENCHMARKS

WD Caviar WD Caviar Seagate Barracuda

Green 3TB Green 2TB LP 2TB

Best scores are bolded. All drives tested on our hard drive test bench: a stock-clocked Intel i7-930 CPU on an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard with 6GB DDR3, running 64-bit Windows 7

Professional. All tests performed using HighPoint RocketRaid 62x HBA.