File Copy Test - con't
Next, File Copy Test combines read and write tasks in some, er, copy tests.

Copy tests stress the SATA25's strength and its weakness, giving us somewhat mixed results. In four of five test patterns, the SATA25 is much slower than our 7,200-RPM notebook drives but still significantly faster than the IDE Flash. However, in the ISO test pattern, which is made up of a small number of very large files, the SATA25 actually manages to pull even with the Momentus and Travelstar.

FC-Test's second wave of copy tests involves copying files from one partition to another on the same drive.

The results from the partition copy tests closely mirror transfer rates from the standard copy tests. Plagued by its poor write performance, the SATA25 is slow here, but comparatively a little faster in the ISO test pattern.