Manufacturer:	Western Digital
Type:	Scorpio Blue
Model:	WD2500BEVT
Firmware:	01.01A01
Capacity:	250 GB
Spindle Speed:	5400 RPM
Interface:	SATA II
Cache:	8 MB
NCQ:	Yes

CPU Model

grep name /proc/cpuinfo | uniq
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T6670  @ 2.20GHz

CPU Cores

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/core_id | sort | uniq | wc -l
2

Kernel

uname -a
Linux redhorse 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 21:35:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Disk Controller

lspci | grep AHCI
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)

Disk Status

egrep 'ata[0-9]\.' /var/log/dmesg
[    1.365110] ata1.00: ATA-8: WDC WD2500BEVT-22A23T0, 01.01A01, max UDMA/133
[    1.365113] ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[    1.366311] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

Memory Performance

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=32M count=1000
33554432000 bytes (34 GB) copied, 16.2022 s, 2.1 GB/s

HDD Performance

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 205.755 s, 81.5 MB/s

bonnie++ -d / -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
redhorse         8G   568  98 54478  17 26960   6  2919  87 71634   7 135.3   3

cd /tmp; wget http://debian.gsd-software.net/benchmark/seeker_baryluk_amd64
chmod +x seeker_baryluk_amd64

for threads in 01 02 04 08 16 32; do echo -n "Threads: $threads "; ./seeker_baryluk_amd64 /dev/sda $threads | grep Results; sleep 1; done
Threads: 01 Results: 54 seeks/second, 18.248 ms random access time (97870889 < offsets < 249762289938)
Threads: 02 Results: 60 seeks/second, 16.547 ms random access time (59971384 < offsets < 249807930105)
Threads: 04 Results: 71 seeks/second, 13.921 ms random access time (128346689 < offsets < 250003753160)
Threads: 08 Results: 82 seeks/second, 12.161 ms random access time (96473340 < offsets < 249809317290)
Threads: 16 Results: 92 seeks/second, 10.811 ms random access time (31916665 < offsets < 250038385742)
Threads: 32 Results: 101 seeks/second, 9.843 ms random access time (27785735 < offsets < 249933085210)