Hitachi HTS54505 Intel Core i3 330M testing with a Acer Aspire 5740 and Intel Core IGP on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. pre-defrag: Processor: Intel Core i3 330M @ 2.13GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Acer Aspire 5740, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS54505, Graphics: Intel Core IGP, Audio: Realtek ALC272X, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit PCIe + Atheros AR928X Wireless OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-26-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 5.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ecryptfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better pre-defrag . 34.87 |=========================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better pre-defrag . 1791.85 |========================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 11815.41 |======================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 144.05 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 16.11 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 35.11 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 11.64 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 38.46 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 52.13 |=========================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 8.85 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 30.44 |=========================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 56.81 |=========================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 39.04 |=========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 11.87 |=========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better pre-defrag . 305.32 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 1.39 |============================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 0.83 |============================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better pre-defrag . 306 |============================================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better pre-defrag . 42.65 |===========================================================