Seagate Barracuda 7200.8: 400GBs with NCQ

Overall System Performance - Winstone 2004

Business Winstone 2004

Business Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:

• Microsoft Access 2002
• Microsoft Excel 2002
• Microsoft FrontPage 2002
• Microsoft Outlook 2002
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
• Microsoft Project 2002
• Microsoft Word 2002
• Norton AntiVirus Professional Edition 2003
• WinZip 8.1

The 7200.8 scored a 24.7 in the Business Winstone 2004 suite. We wondered how it could be possible to see Maxtor's 5400RPM DiamondMax 16 scoring higher than the Seagate drive.

MCC Winstone 2004

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 tests the following applications in various usage scenarios:

• Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1
• Adobe® Premiere® 6.50
• Macromedia® Director MX 9.0
• Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1
• Microsoft® Windows MediaTM Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980
• NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b
• SteinbergTM WaveLabTM 4.0f

We don't see much of a difference between the drives in the Content Creation portion of Winstone 2004, but overall, the Barracuda performs as well as Maxtor's DiamondMax 10.