Now, the results in NTFS bring no surprises: as you can see from the diagram, the E14E100 is faster than the other Maxtor even when the latter is connected to the computer via FireWire.

When the partition size is reduced to 32GB, the Maxtor E14E100 is second, losing the first place to the other Maxtor which was connected through FireWire. This is quite natural since the tested partition takes up more of the “faster” external cylinders of the 250GB model.