Manufacturer:	Western Digital
Type:	Caviar Black
Model:	WD1002FAEX
Firmware:	05.01D05
Capacity:	1000 GB
Spindle Speed:	7200 RPM
Interface:	SATA II
Cache:	64 MB
NCQ:	Yes

CPU Model

grep name /proc/cpuinfo | uniq
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz

CPU Cores

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

Kernel

uname -a
Linux finnix 2.6.30-1-amd64-finnix #1 SMP Tue Aug 4 22:38:20 PDT 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Disk Controller

lspci | grep AHCI
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)

Disk Status

egrep 'ata[0-9]\.|SATA link up' /var/log/dmesg
[   31.872760] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[   31.878823] ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0, 05.01D05, max UDMA/133
[   31.878826] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[   31.880922] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

Memory Performance

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=32M count=1000
33554432000 bytes (34 GB) copied, 3.7067 s, 9.1 GB/s

HDD Performance

blockdev --getra /dev/sda
256
cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop anticipatory deadline [cfq]
cat /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth
31

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 124.942 s, 134 MB/s

parted /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sda mkpart p 2048s 64g
blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
mount -o noatime /dev/sda1 /mnt
bonnie++ -d /mnt -u root -n 0
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
finnix          16G   898  98 78411   8 45664   4  1744  64 113383   6 342.5   7

cd /tmp; http_proxy=http://proxy.lan.gsd-software.net:8080 wget http://smp.if.uj.edu.pl/~baryluk/seeker_baryluk; chmod +x seeker_baryluk
for threads in 01 02 04 08 16 32; do echo -n "Threads: $threads "; ./seeker_baryluk /dev/sda $threads | grep Results; sleep 1; done
Threads: 01 Results: 76 seeks/second, 13.038 ms random access time (253188133 < offsets < 1000132345342)
Threads: 02 Results: 89 seeks/second, 11.228 ms random access time (721544682 < offsets < 999632326187)
Threads: 04 Results: 100 seeks/second, 9.921 ms random access time (695596445 < offsets < 999069094534)
Threads: 08 Results: 117 seeks/second, 8.532 ms random access time (714272823 < offsets < 1000178454323)
Threads: 16 Results: 133 seeks/second, 7.489 ms random access time (172860008 < offsets < 999730175614)
Threads: 32 Results: 151 seeks/second, 6.615 ms random access time (274940368 < offsets < 1000080947228)