Performance in FC-Test

The last test checks the drive’s file-copy speed and is the closest to reality.

When we developed this test set, we were aiming at two goals: to make the copy speed measurements automatic and to measure operations during the copy process separately (such as reading and writing files). We managed to achieve these two goals in the following way. First the test creates files on the HDD according to a certain pattern set by a special script, which provides the number of files to be created and their sizes. Then the saved files are read and copied within one partition and from one partition to another within a tested HDD. Of course, the time required to complete this entire process is measured. The results are given in the tables below:

To make the review more compact, I show only one graph if the results in NTFS and FAT32 are identical.

File creation (write) comes first.

A surprise from the start: Samsung is ahead (though sometimes slightly) of the traditional leader of this type of competition – Maxtor HDDs! Its results are the best among all participating drives. Note also that Samsung PL40 is up to 40% faster than its ancestor, P40. Recalling that the physical speed growth is only 26%, we have clear evidence that software developers did a great job on the firmware. It proves true not only in WinBench, but also in real-life tasks. Bravo!