iozonenative Intel Core i5 650 testing with a Dell 0C522T and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB on LinuxMint 17.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST3500418AS: Processor: Intel Core i5 650 @ 3.19GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0C522T, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269VB, Monitor: DELL P190S, Network: Intel 82578DM Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 17.1, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.4.5, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500418AS . 86.10 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500418AS . 81.54 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500418AS . 77.49 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500418AS . 76.13 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500418AS . 73.15 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3500418AS . 92.31 |==================================================