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 VelociRaptor gets off to a good start, tying the WorldBench overall score of Western Digital's Caviar SE16 640GB. The VR150 is only a couple of points faster than its predecessor, though.

Multimedia editing and encoding

MusicMatch Jukebox

Windows Media Encoder

Adobe Premiere

VideoWave Movie Creator

Among WorldBench's multimedia editing and encoding tests, only Premiere appears to benefit from faster hard drives. There, the VelociRaptor is among the leaders, just four seconds off the pace set by Samsung's SpinPoint F1.