Date: Monday, September 4, 2006
Author: Joe Di Figlia
Provided By: Western Digital
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Model: WD5000KS
Purchase: C.O.D. Shopping
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Everest Ultimate Edition is the newest addition that the benchmarking gambit C.O.D. will run. The Ultimate Edition of the Everest software provides extra features over its less inclined siblings. With this version of the software, you can benchmark your HDD's. These benchmarks will be Linear Reading at the beginning, middle, and end, access times, and buffered read. From these results, we can verify that what the other benchmarks are seeing is valid. The WD5000KS leads in almost all tests for single drives and falls a hair short in only the calculated access times.

With all these results taken into consideration, it is hard not to be impressed by the performance of this drive. In a single drive configuration, not only can you use this drive for storage but you can use it for your main drive as well and not be worried about any performance hits. The WD5000KS is definitely at the head of the class and does so with a nominal price tag. The unit was quietly outperforming the competition (no pun intended). With all this said and done, would I buy one? Not only would I buy one, I will slap it with the C.O.D. Seal of Excellence!

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