iozone-2GB Intel Pentium T4300 testing with a Dell 0C234M and AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 512MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD3200BJKT-7: Processor: Intel Pentium T4300 @ 2.10GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0C234M, Chipset: Intel Mobile 4 MCH + ICH9M, Memory: 2 x 2048 MB DDR2-800MHz, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200BJKT-7, Graphics: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 512MB (500/800MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD73C1X5, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD3200BJKT-7 . 1113.38 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD3200BJKT-7 . 42.45 |=========================================