Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

Photoshop is a wash, but ACDSee manages to spread the field a little. There, the Deskstar again finds itself sitting between Western Digital and Seagate's 750GB drives, with the former taking the lead once again.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

There isn't much to see in WorldBench's multitasking and office application tests. The 7K1000 does take top honors with the suite's Office XP and Mozilla media encode workloads, but it doesn't really distance itself from the other drives.

Other applications

WinZip

Nero

WinZip and Nero give the Deskstar a chance to really stretch its legs. Unfortunately, those legs are a little short, as the 7K1000 finds itself behind not only the 750GB Caviar, but also Seagate's Barracuda ES and 7200.10.