To our surprise, Samsung's drive exhibits great strength in
IOMeter. It turns in an IOMeter
Workstation index score (a normalized average of
Light, Medium, and Heavy loads) of 141.15. Such a score exceeds our current
leaderboard champ, the
Quantum Fireball lct10, by a margin of nearly 6%. This may not sound like much, but this clocks the SpinPoint at a speed 14% faster than the same
WD450AA that thrashes it in WB99 tests. In fact, its score is within spitting distance (less than 2%) of the popular 7200 RPM
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40. Not bad at all!
Conclusion...
