Here's a summary of what was measured for the laptop drive tested in detail previously, as well as a desktop drive both alone and in a RAID array as a second useful data point:
Disks |
Seq read |
Seq write |
Bonnie++ seeks |
sysbench seeks |
Commits per sec |
Seagate 320GB 7200.4 laptop |
71 |
58 |
232 @ 4GB |
194 @ 4GB |
105 or 1048 |
WD160GB 7200RPM |
59 |
54 |
177 @ 16GB |
56 @ 100GB |
10212 |
3X WD160GB RAID 0 |
125 |
119 |
371 @ 16GB |
60 @ 100GB |
10855 |
Note how all the seek-related information is reported here relative to the size of the area being used to seek over. This is a good habit to adopt. Also note that in the laptop rate, two commit rates are reported. The lower value is without the write ...