Winbench

The Cheetah 15K.3 can't quite best the old Atlas 15K in Winbench 99's disk playback tests, and Maxtor's new firmware only extends the Atlas 15K's lead.

In Winbench's transfer rate tests, the Cheetah 15K.3 races out to an early lead over the Atlas 15K drives at the beginning of the disk, but falls sort at the end.

Despite the fact that, on paper, the Cheetah 15K.3 has slower access times than Maxtor's Atlas 15K, the Cheetah still manages a better performance in Winbench 99's access time test.