Performance in FC Test

Next I’m going to verify the results of WinBench 99 by running FC-Test that can determine the real-life speed characteristics of hard disk drives. This benchmarking tool measures the time it takes to create (i.e. to write), to read and to copy a few sets of files that differ in the size and number of files included. Knowing this time we can calculate the speed of the drive. The Windows and Programs patterns consist of many smaller files, while the other three patterns include a few larger files. Two 32GB partitions are created on the drive for the copy operations and the file patterns are first copied within the same partition (copy near) and then from one partition to another (copy far).

FAT32 comes first. The diagram of the file creation (i.e. write) speed suggests that the hard drive worked faster in the ViPowER enclosure. The advantage of this container was especially conspicuous when the drive was processing the two patterns with small-size files.

This diagram shows you the read speed of the drive in the two containers. Once again, it is faster in all five patterns when works in the enclosure from ViPowER.

When copying files within the same partition, we can again see the higher efficiency of the ViPowER enclosure, which is simply overwhelming in the two patterns that include many smaller files.

The last diagram represents the speed of copying files from one partition to another, and again the ViPowER container claims victory. Our hard disk drive is always faster when installed in this enclosure.