Manufacturer: Western Digital
Type: VelociRaptor
Model: WD1000DHTZ
Firmware: 04.06A00
Capacity: 1000 GB
Spindle Speed: 10,000 RPM
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Cache: 64 MB
NCQ: Yes

CPU Model

grep name /proc/cpuinfo | uniq
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9550  @ 2.83GHz

CPU Threads

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/core_id | wc -l
4

Cores per CPU

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/core_id | sort | uniq | wc -l
4

Kernel

uname -a
Linux gsd-pc-d23 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 4 11:42:06 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Disk Controller

lspci | grep IDE
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01)

Disk Status

egrep 'ata[0-9]\.|SATA link up' /var/log/dmesg
[    1.061417] ata4.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0, 04.06A00, max UDMA/133
[    1.061421] ata4.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)

Memory Performance

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=32M count=1000
33554432000 bytes (34 GB) copied, 14.4645 s, 2.3 GB/s

HDD Performance

blockdev --getra /dev/sdb
256
cat /sys/block/sdb/queue/scheduler
noop deadline [cfq]
cat /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth
1
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 83.2838 s, 201 MB/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 80.0775 s, 210 MB/s

parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sdb mkpart p 2048s 64g; sleep 3
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
mount -o noatime /dev/sdb1 /mnt
bonnie++ -d /mnt -u root -f -n 0 -r 6000
Version  1.96       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
gsd-pc-d23      12G   635  99 139418 32 82770  16  2787  98 196387 17 272.2  10
Latency             16650us    1021ms     957ms   10352us   48573us    1412ms

cd /tmp; wget http://debian.gsd-software.net/benchmark/seeker_baryluk_x86
chmod +x seeker_baryluk_x86
for threads in 01 02 04 08 16 32; do echo -n "Threads: $threads "; ./seeker_baryluk_x86 /dev/sdb $threads | grep Results; sleep 1; done
Threads: 01 Results: 147 seeks/second, 6.800 ms random access time (781179703 < offsets < 1000167430328)
Threads: 02 Results: 147 seeks/second, 6.763 ms random access time (122214556 < offsets < 999767720727)
Threads: 04 Results: 145 seeks/second, 6.856 ms random access time (7721314 < offsets < 999946404557)
Threads: 08 Results: 146 seeks/second, 6.814 ms random access time (70903538 < offsets < 1000161858481)
Threads: 16 Results: 145 seeks/second, 6.860 ms random access time (259455821 < offsets < 1000150902952)
Threads: 32 Results: 148 seeks/second, 6.734 ms random access time (124840027 < offsets < 999662197027)