Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

ACDSee benefits more from faster drives than Photoshop, and the GP again finds itself trailing the SE16 and RE2. The GreenPower drive can't seem to shake Hitachi's terabyte Deskstar, either.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

None of the drives distinguish themselves through WorldBench's office and multitasking tests.

Other applications

WinZip

Nero

WinZip and Nero are a little different. In both, the Caviar GP continues its trend of nearly matching the performance of the Deskstar 7K1000. The fastest half of the field is all pretty close in WinZip, though. In Nero, the drives are a little more spread out, with the GP pulling up nearly 50 seconds slower than Western Digital's fastest 7,200-RPM drive.