tiobench-1 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 testing with a HP 30E7 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 256MB on Ubuntu 10.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Hitachi HTS72322: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP 30E7, Chipset: Intel Mobile 4 MCH + ICH9M-E, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Hitachi HTS72322, Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 256MB, Audio: Analog Devices AD1984A, Network: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-32-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: fglrx 8.92.6, OpenGL: 3.3.11318, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HTS72322 . 1680.05 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HTS72322 . 48.68 |===================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HTS72322 . 1554.58 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HTS72322 . 5.04 |======================================================