Testing Diskspeed Running pts/iozone-1.7.0, pts/dbench-1.0.0. Samsung 250GB: Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 2.80GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3, Chipset: AMD RS780, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250820AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1024MB (715/1800MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892 OS: Fedora 14, Kernel: 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.5.5, Display Server: X Server 1.9.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 260.19.29, OpenGL: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 260.19.29, Compiler: GCC 4.5.1 + Clang 2.8 + llvm 2.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB: Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.10GHz (2 Cores), Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800, Memory: 4 x 1024 MB DDR2-800MHz, Disk: 300GB Western Digital WDC WD3000GLFS-0, Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470, Monitor: VX1940w OS: Debian 6.0, Kernel: 2.6.38-rc7+ (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.7.7, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5 + llvm 2.6 (Debian 2.6-9.1), File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 13.10 |=== Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 131.41 |================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 919.26 |==================== Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 1535.15 |================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 3766.19 |============================== Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 4121.88 |================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 1187.17 |==================== Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 1960.85 |================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 3945.27 |============================ Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 4668.90 |================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 1172.48 |==================== Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 1932.22 |================================= IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 250GB ...................... 3548.40 |============================= Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB . 4087.63 |=================================