Now, let’s see how the drives are copying files within one partition.

Two Maxtors are leaders in copying Install files, but Hitachi HDS722580VLSA80 and Samsung SP0802N are close behind. SP0802N is a real wonder as it manages to compete with 8MB-cached drives with its only 2MB of cache.

The Maxtor drives look preferable at copying large files, but Samsung SP0802N matches their performance. The firmware of this device is especially good for copying large files. I wonder how it will be doing with small files? WD740GB took its deserved place.

Two drives from Maxtor show very good results, but the firmware of SP0802N drive handles this workload well enough, too.

The Maxtors gave up before WD740GD in these tests.