Iozone
The standard command I use is as follows:
iozone -s 1024m -r 32k -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -+n -t 1
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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
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 70735.41 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 61879.04 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 12072.48 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 22518.14 KB/sec
(3 Drives in LVM)
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 64858.33 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 64913.92 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 33801.48 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 71252.03 KB/sec
Maxtor
Maxtor 54098U8
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 25403.75 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 5227.56 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 6036.05 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 9144.35 KB/sec
Seagate
ST373405LW
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 48671.05 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 54253.02 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 16231.61 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 42183.82 KB/sec