Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

ACDSee gives our hard drives a little room to stretch their legs, but the 7200.10 can't quite catch the Caviar SE16, so it's the second-fastest 7,200-RPM drive here.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

Other applications

Winzip

Nero

WorldBench's office and multitasking tests don't favor one drive over the others, but WinZip and Nero both spread the field. In WinZip, the Barracuda 7200.10 rises to the top, beating even the 10K-RPM Raptor X. The Raptor exacts its revenge in Nero, but even then, the 7200.10 turns in an impressive second-place performance.