Date: Monday, September 4, 2006
Author: Joe Di Figlia
Provided By: Western Digital
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Model: WD5000KS
Purchase: C.O.D. Shopping
Page: 5 of 6

Most of the enthusiast scene has become wildly familiar with FutureMark benchmarking products. They are the famed creators of the 3DMark suite and the PCMark suite. PCMark 05 benchmarks these drives and gives useful information about their performance; providing information about performance in Windows XP Startup, Application Loading, Virus Scanning, File Writing, and General usage.

Writing and XP Startup times are tops with the WD5000KS and performance in the other classes is a close one.