Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

ACDSee stretches the storage subsystem a little, and the Caviars are beaten only by Western Digital's latest 10K-RPM Raptors.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

Scores are close through WorldBench's office and multitasking tests.

Other applications

Winzip

Nero

WinZip and Nero spread the field, but they don't separate the 500GB flavors of the RE2 and SE16. The drives are evenly matched in these tests, but they're a hair slower than Seagate's latest Barracudas.