Let’s examine the results of the drives under NTFS now. The first diagram shows you the speeds of creating (i.e. writing) files. Like in FAT32, the performance of Seagate’s drive is a disaster – it is too sluggish.

The Momentus 5400.2 is better at reading than at other operations. Here it takes the second place, after the Hitachi drive.

As the diagram shows, the NTFS file system positively affects the performance of the Seagate drive in the copy-near test. The Momentus 5400.2 looks better than in the same test in FAT32 and takes the third place. Note also that it is more efficient at processing patterns that include many small files.

The last diagram shows you the speeds of copying files from one partition to another. The Momentus 2 takes the third place again, outperforming the drive from Toshiba and losing to the two leaders.