WorldBench overall performance
WorldBench uses scripting to step through a series of tasks in common Windows applications. It then produces an overall score. WorldBench also spits out individual results for its component application tests, allowing us to compare performance in each. We'll look at the overall score, and then we'll show individual application results.

The Barracuda 7200.11 gets off to a rough start in WorldBench, where it sits one point behind the 7200.10. That puts the drive a full two points off the pace set by Western Digital's fastest Caviar and one point shy of scores set by our other terabyte drives, the Deskstar 7K1000 and the Caviar GP.

Multimedia editing and encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox

Windows Media Encoder

Adobe Premiere

VideoWave Movie Creator

Among WorldBench's multimedia editing and encoding tests, only Premiere shows much of a performance difference between the drives. There, the 'cuda manages a respectable score; it's not quite as fast as the Caviar SE16 and RE2—desktop and enterprise versions of essentially the same drive—but it's at least as fast as its terabyte competition.