PCMark Vantage
HDD Windows Defender
Measures disk drive performance of Windows Defender Scan on Windows Vista Ultimate. Unit is MB/s.
HDD gaming
Measures seamless data streaming performance from disk drive in Alan Wake™. Unit is MB/s.
HDD importing pictures to Windows Photo Gallery
Measures disk drive performance of importing a large collection of images to Windows Photo Gallery. Unit is MB/s.
HDD Windows Vista start up
Measures disk drive performance of Windows Vista Ultimate start up. Unit is MB/s.
HDD video editing using Windows Movie Maker
Measures concurrent disk drive performance of video editing tasks using Windows Movie Maker: A) video read and skip, and B) video write. Unit is MB/s.
HDD Windows Media Center
Measures concurrent disk drive performance of MC tasks: A) SDTV video playback, B) SDTV video streaming to Extender for Windows Media Center, and C) SDTV video recording. Unit is MB/s.
HDD adding music to Windows Media Player
Measures disk drive performance of adding music to Windows Media Player 11. Unit is MB/s.
HDD application loading
Measures disk drive performance of loading the following applications: Microsoft Word 2007, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Internet Explorer 7 Web Browser and Outlook 2007. Unit is MB/s.
The PCMark Vantage suite updates the HDD testing to include several more scenarios but again the results are universal: nothing can stop the raw speed of the VelociRaptor drive.
