Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

Another member of the WorldBench suite that benefits from faster storage is the ACDSee test, which has the ANS-9010 making an SSD sandwich out of the X25-E.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

The field doesn't spread much in WorldBench's office and multitasking tests, although the ANS-9010 continues to turn in some of the quickest completion times of the lot.

Other applications

WinZip

Nero

Among all of WorldBench's individual application tests, Nero and WinZip are the most demanding of the storage subsystem. In the latter, which appears primarily to stress read performance, the ANS-9010 just edges out Intel's SSDs. The RAM disk stretches its legs even more in Nero, with our single-drive config outpacing the X25-E by 13 seconds. The RAID 0 setup is an additional 20 seconds faster than that. This test appears to have a mix of read and write requests, as evidenced by the performance gap between the X25-E and the X25-M; the X-25M's write speeds are 100MB/s slower than those of the X25-E Extreme.