Now let’s see how the drives are going to perform in NTFS.

The first diagram shows the speed of creating (writing) the file-sets. The Samsung SpinPoint M60S HM120JI looks the best of the three reviewed drives and is among the leaders overall. The Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS looks good, too. Unfortunately, the Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 HTS541612J9AT00 stumbles on write operations and turns to be the slowest in this test.

The Samsung SpinPoint M60S HM120JI is among the top four when reading the file-sets. The Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 HTS541612J9AT doesn’t look out of place here, delivering performance comparable to the Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS.

The Copy-Near diagram shows that the Samsung SpinPoint M60S HM120JI and the Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS are among the fastest devices. The low write speed of the Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 HTS541612J9AT00 dragged it down to last place.

The last diagram shows the speed of copying files from one partition to another. The Samsung SpinPoint M60S HM120JI is the fastest of the three reviewed drives and is only second to the Seagate among the drives included into this test. The Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS has rather high results, too. As you might have expected, the Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 HTS541612J9AT00 remains the slowest device of all.