Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

Photoshop doesn't seem to care for faster drives, but ACDSee takes advantage better of the RE2-GP. Here, the drive only just falls behind the 7,200-RPM Caviar SE16 and RE2, and it's a good ten seconds faster than the Caviar GP.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

There isn't much to see through WorldBench's office and multitasking tests.

Other applications

WinZip

Nero

WinZip and Nero are different stories altogether, though. In the former, the RE2-GP ties its desktop counterpart and manages to squeak ahead of the terabyte Barracuda and Deskstar. Nero provides more fertile ground for the RE2-GP, which returns to third place behind the Caviar SE16 and RE2. That puts the drive a good 23 seconds ahead of the Caviar GP and faster than all the other terabyte offerings in the pack.