Now we should pay some attention to the results obtained in NTFS file system.

On the diagram with the file writing speed FireWire 800 interface proved highly efficient in all five patterns. The lowest results were obtained when we connected our hard drive via the USB 2.0 interface. It is remarkable that the performance difference between the two FireWire interfaces is relatively low when we deal with writing a lot of smaller files: Programs and Windows patterns. It is probably the linear write speed that we have already measured earlier, which doesn’t differ that much when we work with smaller data blocks.

The situation during file reading is very similar to the previous case. FireWire 800 interface appeared the best-performing here. Once again it is not that much ahead of the FireWire 400 interface when we work with Programs and Windows patterns. It is probably again the insignificant linear read speed difference between these two interfaces that determines results like that for smaller data blocks. USB 2.0 interface is the slowest of all once again.

When we copy files within the same partition in patterns that deal with large number of smaller files, FireWire 800 interface manages to lose to FireWire 400, and in one pattern it is even slower than USB 2.0. Nevertheless, USB 2.0 is the least efficient of all three interfaces.

The last diagram shows the performance of our hard drive connected via different interfaces when we copy files from one partition to another. If we look at the two patterns that include a lot of smaller files we will see that FireWire 800 yielded not only to FireWire 800, but also to USB 2.0.