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 Hitachi HTS54505: 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 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 34.07 |==================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better pre-defrag ....... 1791.85 |================================================ Hitachi HTS54505 . 1899.84 |=================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 11815.41 |================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 11866.60 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 144.05 |==================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 132.16 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 16.11 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 14.50 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 35.11 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 31.71 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 11.64 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 11.73 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 38.46 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 37.30 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 52.13 |================================================ Hitachi HTS54505 . 57.87 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 8.85 |====================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 8.88 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 30.44 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 29.08 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 56.81 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 33.95 |================================ Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 39.04 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 13.71 |=================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 11.87 |================================================ Hitachi HTS54505 . 13.07 |===================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better pre-defrag ....... 305.32 |==================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 274.35 |=============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 1.39 |================================================= Hitachi HTS54505 . 1.53 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 0.83 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 0.84 |====================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better pre-defrag ....... 306 |======================================================= Hitachi HTS54505 . 105 |=================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better pre-defrag ....... 42.65 |===================================================== Hitachi HTS54505 . 31.22 |=======================================