Starting down the home stretch was ZD's WinBench99 v1.1.
Windows ME
FAT 32
Windows 2000
Pro FAT 32
Windows 2000
Pro NTFS
Disk TX Rate (Beginning)
26,800 KB/Sec
26,800 KB/Sec
26,800 KB/Sec
Disk TX Rate (End)
19,700 KB/Sec
19,700 KB/Sec
19,700 KB/Sec
CPU Utilization (%)
4.39
5.34
5.41
Disk Access Time/CPU Util
12ms/1.35%
11.8ms/1.28%
12.1ms/1.26%
Disk CPU Util/Avg KB/Sec
3.48%/4000
3.04%/4000
3.11%/4000
Disk Playback/Business
Overall
4,377
KB/s
6,120
KB/s
4,423
KB/s
CPU Utilization(%)
37.40%
30.23%
26.86%
Disk Playback/HighEnd
Overall
14,000
KB/s
17,400
KB/s
14,067
KB/s
AVS/Express
3.4
9,463
KB/s
18,900
KB/s
15,733
KB/s
FrontPage 98
32,600
KB/s
82,900
KB/s
62,167
KB/s
MicroStation SE
13,600
KB/s
26,200
KB/s
20,900
KB/s
Photoshop
4.0
9,003
KB/s
9,040
KB/s
8,660
KB/s
Premiere
4.2
14,767
KB/s
15,100
KB/s
10,460
KB/s
Sound
Forge 4.0
22,267
KB/s
14,500
KB/s
11,933
KB/s
Visual
C++ 5.0
14,967
KB/s
18,900
KB/s
13,533
KB/s
CPU
Utilization
29.25%
16.58%
16.63%
The variety of numbers in the
High-End section between file systems and operating systems is bewildering.
Under AVS/Express, FrontPage, and MicroStation SE, Windows 2000 handily
outperforms WinMe, but comes up short under Sound Forge. Here NTFS is clearly
slower than FAT32, but of course if you want the extra reliability and security
it provides, you'll want to stick with it anyway. Again CPU utilization was
higher under WinMe, except in the transfer rate tests.
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