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.

WorldBench better simulates typical desktop tasks than enterprise workloads, but the RE2-GP scores higher than the Caviar GP, if only by one point. Still, that puts the enterprise GreenPower at the head of the class, ahead of every other terabyte drive we've tested.

Multimedia editing and encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox

Windows Media Encoder

Adobe Premiere

VideoWave Movie Creator

With the exception of Premiere, scores are close throughout WorldBench's multimedia editing and encoding tests. In Adobe's video editing app, the RE2-GP fares reasonably well, besting terabyte drives from Seagate and Hitachi in addition to the Caviar GP. Western Digital's standard RE2, with its full 7,200-RPM spindle speed, is still faster, though.