That’s enough for reading; let’s get to copying files within one partition.

No disk could get twice on top, and there are even two winners in the Programs pattern, so we’ve got some violent competition here.

The Install pattern comes first, as usual:

The drives from Samsung, which were in the middle of the diagram at reading, are now settled at the top two places, although closely followed by their rivals.

Hitachi drives’ dislike towards large files showed itself at copying ISO-type files. That’s why there are two disks from Seagate in the top part of the diagram. The leading disks from Samsung exchanged their places. The Western Digital team started regaining positions from the Seagate team – how long are they going to do that?

The leader has changed. The pair of Maxtor drives outperformed the pair from Samsung. Interestingly, Maxtor’s SATA drive is faster at copying MP3 files, but it’s vice versa with Samsung: the PATA drive is faster than the SATA one.

As soon as it came to copying small files, the disks from Hitachi got moving and gained a tremendous speed, outperforming the other drives much. The Seagate ST3160023AS is surprisingly fast in the Windows pattern, and with any firmware version! Thus, we can say that this operation greatly depends on the average access time.