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
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
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
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
WDC WD5000AAJB-00UHA
This is the drive through an IEEE1394 Firewire connection:
This was also done on a FAT32 partition.
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 26731.99 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 29232.09 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 8226.97 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 24798.85 KB/sec
Now, with an ext3 filesystem installed:
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 27004.33 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 28917.23 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 8041.50 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 11330.02 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
ST173404LW
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 30251.11 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 28398.42 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 14386.34 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 17114.76 KB/sec
ST336607LC
These numbers are kind of screwed up. I find it hard to believe that a Seagate Cheetah 10k disk only gets this kind of performance. I am probably going to retire the machine that this disk is in, and find something a bit better.
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 4268.85 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 3454.83 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 2762.78 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 3499.16 KB/sec
ST380811AS
Some more unbelievable numbers. It wouldn't surprise me here if there was some major caching going on. The machine itself has 8gb of RAM in this situation.
Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 20867.79 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 readers = 1616623.50 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random readers = 1603349.50 KB/sec Children see throughput for 1 random writers = 5807.17 KB/sec