WorldBench overall performance
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 DiamondMax doesn't get off to a particularly good start, managing only the middle of the field in WorldBench. Scores are relatively close, of course, but the Maxtor drive is slower than the latest from Seagate, Samsung, and Western Digital.

Multimedia editing and encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox

Windows Media Encoder

Adobe Premiere

VideoWave Movie Creator

With the exception of Premiere, scores are bunched tightly together throughout WorldBench's multimedia editing and encoding tests. In the one test that does give the drives a little room to play, the DiamondMax finishes near the front of the pack.