Venator schrijft: "Ook bij Gamer's Depot doen ze aan roundups, ze waren zo vriendelijk om deze schijven tegen over elkaar te plaatsen en natuulijk te benchmarken: Western Digital Caviar 205BA, Fujitsu MPE3273AT 5400rpm, Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 7200rpm en de IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045 7200rpm".
Na deze harddisken te hebben gebenchmarked onder TCD Labs HDTach 2.61 en WinBench 99 bleek de IBM drive duidelijk de snelste van het stel:
Without question, the IBM is the fastest drive in this roundup and absolutely trounced through our benchmarks and sent the other drives running away in fear. Sporting an Ultra ATA/100 interface, a 2MB buffer, and a 7200 RPM spindle rate, this is the drive to get for those that demand large storage at the fastest speeds we've seen in any IDE hard drive to date.
As you can see in the HDTach scores, this drive pegged the Read Burst Speed chart at 80 MB/second, and also has the best Random Access Time at 8.5ms. This is also the only drive that we tested which actually achieved its rated average seek time.