iozone-113-20120120 Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 testing with a Abit IP35-E (Intel P35+ICH9/R) v1.0 and AMD Radeon HD 3600 512MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD5000AAJS-0: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 @ 2.72GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Abit IP35-E (Intel P35+ICH9/R) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAJS-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3600 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: LEN L220xwC, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-22-generic (i686), Desktop: Unity 6.12.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AAJS-0 . 2078.05 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AAJS-0 . 46.09 |=========================================