Disk Bench Running pts/iozone-1.7.0, pts/aio-stress-1.1.0, pts/tiobench-1.1.0. WD EARS 2tb: Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 2.80GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3, Chipset: AMD RS780, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2000GB Western Digital WDC WD20EARS-00M, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (715/1800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892 OS: Fedora 14, Kernel: 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.9.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 260.19.36, OpenGL: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 260.19.36, Compiler: GCC 4.5.1 + Clang 2.8 + llvm 2.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 hitachi 7200rpm: Processor: Intel Core i7 M 620 @ 2.67GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 43494JG, Chipset: Intel Core, Memory: 3584MB, Disk: 320GB HITACHI HTS72503, Graphics: NVS 3100M 512MB (606/790MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20585 OS: Fedora 14, Kernel: 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.5.5, Display Server: X Server 1.9.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 260.19.36, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.36, Compiler: GCC 4.5.1 + Clang 2.8 + llvm 2.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 850.70 |==================================================== hitachi 7200rpm . 863.85 |===================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 3691.10 |================================================= hitachi 7200rpm . 3899.67 |==================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 1193.56 |================================================= hitachi 7200rpm . 1270.37 |==================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 3719.15 |========================================= hitachi 7200rpm . 4702.46 |==================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 1141.28 |================================================= hitachi 7200rpm . 1222.55 |==================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 3499.13 |========================================== hitachi 7200rpm . 4338.67 |==================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 57.45 |====================================================== hitachi 7200rpm . 45.78 |=========================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 58.23 |=================================================== hitachi 7200rpm . 61.30 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 1.44 |======================================================= hitachi 7200rpm . 1.17 |============================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 43.40 |====================================================== hitachi 7200rpm . 42.78 |===================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better WD EARS 2tb ..... 1.52 |======================================================= hitachi 7200rpm . 0.89 |================================