IOZone001 Intel Core i5-3350P testing with a ASUS P8Z77-V LX2 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD10EADS-11M: Processor: Intel Core i5-3350P @ 3.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LX2, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-11M + 500GB SAMSUNG HD502HI, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 1024MB (810/600MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.43, OpenGL: 4.2.0 NVIDIA, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EADS-11M . 6626.40 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EADS-11M . 5612.99 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EADS-11M . 103.32 |======================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EADS-11M . 102.18 |======================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EADS-11M . 6607.97 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EADS-11M . 102.48 |========================================