Now it’s high time we checked out the performance of our drives in NTFS file system. The files creation (writing) speed of the WD Scorpio drive makes it the winner in four patterns out of five.

The diagram with the read speed results shows that Western Digital solution yields only to the drive from Seagate. In four patterns out of five the Scorpio retains its second position and only once it takes the third prize.

Copying the files within the same partition makes Western Digital yield to Seagate again in all five patterns. It performed nearly as fast as the Hitachi drive.

The last Copy Far diagram shows that WD Scorpio is an outsider in three patterns working with larger files. In other two patterns, WD800VE is defeated by the HDD from Seagate, but runs almost neck and neck with the Hitachi drive.