WorldBench
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 Caviar Green isn't the fastest drive in WorldBench, and it's not any quicker than its predecessor. However, this suite of application tests nicely illustrates the fact that you don't need a fast hard drive for most common desktop tasks. Only four points separates the fastest from the slowest here.

Multimedia editing and encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox

Windows Media Encoder

Adobe Premiere

VideoWave Movie Creator

Of WorldBench's multimedia editing and encoding tests, the field only really separates in Premiere. The Caviar Green is the slowest of the bunch in that test, trailing even its 250GB-per-platter forebear.