File Copy Test
File Copy Test is a pseudo-real-world benchmark that times how long it takes to create, read, and copy files in various test patterns. File copying is tested twice: once with the source and target on the same partition, and once with the target on a separate partition. Scores are presented in MB/s.

To make things easier to read, we've separated our FC-Test results into individual graphs for each test pattern. We'll tackle file creation performance first.

With the exception of the ISO test pattern, which includes only a couple of extremely large files, Western Digital drives dominate the file creation component of FC-Test. The Caviar Black only delivers the highest transfer rates with one of five test patters, but it never drops out of the top three.

Little changes when we move to FC-Test's read component, which sees the Black in contention across all five workloads. The VelociRaptor is clearly the fastest drive in this batch of tests, but behind it, the Caviar Black and SE16 640GB are locked in a close battle for second place.