test1 Intel Core i7-2600K testing with a ASRock Z77 Extreme6 and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3072MB on LinuxMint 17 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST31000524AS: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme6, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS + 60GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3072MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: LinuxMint 17, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.2.16, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 4237 |================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 12104.03 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 12908.37 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 31.88 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 19239.45 |==============================================