The last action of the FC Test is copying files to another partition.

We see the Samsung team dominating on large files and the Hitachi team on small ones. The drives from Seagate are poor again.

The drives split into pairs (PATA and SATA variants). The Samsung drives are on top, followed by the Hitachi devices; the two Maxtors are behind. Interestingly, it is only in the Samsung team that a PATA drive outperforms a SATA one.

When copying ISO-like files, the drives from Hitachi gave way to the Maxtors as well as to the Samsung SP1604N. The bottom of the diagram is mostly comprised of Seagate disks, with two Hitachi devices among them, but the latter fact is rather an exception to the rule.

The results of copying MP3 files practically repeated the results of the Install pattern, except that the pair of Maxtors is still faster than the Hitachi HDDs. MP3-like files are relatively big, and, as we’ve already learned, Hitachi’s HDDs don’t work well with such files.

No one can challenge the Hitachi team at copying small files (Programs and Windows patterns). The Seagate ST3160023AS with any firmware, although couldn’t reach the speed of the Hitachi drives, improved its results considerably and first caught up with the pair of Samsung devices and then left them behind.

That’s the end of our NTFS tests. The results for the FAT32 file system are similar to those we saw under NTFS and we don’t think it necessary to discuss them at length, just a couple of facts: first, the speeds are overall higher in FAT32 than in NTFS, and, second, the drives from Maxtor work better in NTFS than in FAT32, so the Hitachi team mainly competes with the Samsung devices in patterns than consist of small files.