Let’s now see what we have with NTFS.

The Hitachi HTS721010G9AT00 is far from leadership in this test. It creates files at a slightly higher speed than its Serial ATA mate and is ahead of the Seagate ST910021AS when processing small files. It is the Seagate ST910021A with the classic Parallel ATA interface that is the fastest here.

The pair of Hitachi drives is confidently ahead of the Seagate duo in the test of reading the file-sets. The PATA version of the Hitachi drive is a little ahead of the SATA one.

The Hitachi drives have almost the same speeds when copying files within the same partition, but the HTS721010G9AT00 is preferable between the two. It is not an indisputable leader in this test, though, because the Seagate ST910021A proves to be faster with the two patterns that consist of large files.

And finally we are copying files from one partition to another. The HTS721010G9AT00 is again a little ahead of its Serial ATA version and, like in the previous case, is slower than the Seagate ST910021A in the two patterns that consist of large files.