Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

The field does spread a little in ACDSee, though. Western Digital sweeps the medals here, although the Caviar RE2 has to settle for bronze.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

WorldBench's office and multitasking results are close. We'll explore more disk-intensive multitasking tests in a moment.

Other applications

Winzip

Nero

Winzip and Nero give the drives an opportunity to stretch their legs a little, but the Caviar RE2 sticks close to the middle of the pack in both tests.