NTFS File System

Now let’s check out NTFS results.

It’s the same as in FAT32: the Fujitsu MHW2 BJ shows superb speed, the old Seagate 7200.7 copes best with copying large files but fails the copying of small files. The Seagate 7200.10 again has no advantage over the 2.5” HDDs with the same spindle rotation speed.

Reading is the test where the 3.5” HDDs are better than their smaller counterparts. Seagate’s 7200.10 and 7200.7 models take top places with every file-set. The Seagate 7200.1 is very slow among the 2.5” HDDs, being inferior even to the 5400rpm Fujitsu MHY2 BH.

It’s the same at copying. The two 3.5” HDDs from Seagate and the high-density Hitachi 7K200 and Fujitsu MHW2 BJ are in the lead. Seagate’s 3.5” HDDs are good at copying large files but the Hitachi 7K200 goes ahead on small files, utilizing the advantage of a larger buffer and more effective firmware algorithms. The Seagate 7200.1 has low performance, again.