Iozone

The standard command I use is as follows:

iozone -s 1024m -r 32k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -+n -t 1

Western Digital

WDC WD1600JD-75H

64k Blocks

        Children see throughput for  1 initial writers  =   49564.20 KB/sec
        Children see throughput for  1 readers          =   59590.32 KB/sec
        Children see throughput for 1 random readers    =    8309.17 KB/sec
        Children see throughput for 1 random writers    =   22801.88 KB/sec

WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0

64k Blocks

        Children see throughput for  1 initial writers  =   46014.13 KB/sec
        Children see throughput for  1 readers          =   40067.62 KB/sec
        Children see throughput for 1 random readers    =   11244.67 KB/sec
        Children see throughput for 1 random writers    =   16124.12 KB/sec

WDC WD3200JS-60P

64k Blocks

Maxtor
Maxtor 54098U8