While a lot of high-level information about disk performance has been mentioned already, if you want to get useful benchmarks from drives, you'll need to know a bit more about their physical characteristics. This will drop back to theory for a bit, followed by examples of real measured disks that demonstrate common things you can expect to see.
Physical disk performance
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