iPEAK multitasking
We've developed a series of disk-intensive multitasking tests to highlight the impact of seek times and command queuing on hard drive performance. You can get the low-down on these iPEAK-based tests here. The mean service time of each drive is reported in milliseconds, with lower values representing better performance.

Disk-intensive multitasking proves a little challenging for the Caviar Green. The latest addition to the GreenPower family can't keep up with the Caviar GP with workloads that pair a VirtualDub import operation with compressed file creation and extraction, but it is quicker with the other three workloads.

Our second batch of iPEAK workloads plays out much like the first. The Caviar Green struggles when a VirtualDub import is paired with other tasks, but fares better otherwise.

If we average the response times for each drive across all our iPEAK workloads, the Caviar Green ends up in ninth place, just ahead of the Caviar GP.