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WESTERN DIGITAL RE2

Windows XP Performance

The testbed used is comprised of the following components:

Motherboard Asus PVL-D

CPUs AMD Opteron 275, x 2

Memory Apacer PC2-3200 DDR2-400 1GB

Power Supplies PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 850W SSI

Boot HDD Seagate Barracuda 40GB

Cooling Spire Cooler Verticool

Video Card ATI Rage XL on the motherboard

The operating system is Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition.

Unfortunately, HD Tach 3.0.1.0 RW would not complete any tests with the RE2.

Therefore, we are left with the ever-reliable ATTO Disk Benchmark:

Comparing this performance to the Barracuda ES, we see that the RE2 pales in comparison... The Barracuda ES simply smashes the benchmarks with numbers in the high 70MB/s range.



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	1. Introduction
	2. Windows XP Performance
	3. Conclusion