one Intel Core i7-4770K testing with a Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H-CF and Intel HD 4600 on LinuxMint 16 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H-CF, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 + 200GB Seagate ST3200822AS, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1250MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: LinuxMint 16, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 2.0.14, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.904, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 1815 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 16262.27 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 17490.90 |========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 23.07 |============================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 39870.69 |==========================================