I would assume that the two benchmark programs I am using to measure the drive performance under windows go through windows, and thus the NTFS interface. They are Dr. Hardware and FreshDiagnose. The second one showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB per second... Though the same one reported a read speed of about 900+ MB per second for my USB drive (not really possible, since the maximum speed for USB 2.0 is about 480 MB / second).
Hi Chris,
A more realistic speed for a HD is about 60-90MB/second... It's hardware limited. So your values are quite off, regardless of the OS and the filesystem.
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