Now I will check the performance of the drive when its whole capacity is formatted in FAT32. We’ve got two results here: Business Disk WinMark and High-End Disk WinMark, the latter having more priority. Surprisingly, the performance of the Maxtor E14E100 turns out to be much worse than that of the senior model. I’m not quite sure as to the reasons for that. There may be some problem with the testbed, or it’s possible that this is due to the two drives from Maxtor having different firmware.

When the tests are performed on a 32GB partition, the performance of the Maxtor E14E100 goes up a little, but it is still far below the performance of the senior model. It’s generally the same picture as we’ve seen above.