Test results iozone KByte/s

The test first builds a file 4 GByte big (sequential, initial write) and afterwards there will be read from this file (sequential, read). One step later there will be the same on a random basis to see the influence of the access time (random reads/writes). You can compare 4 KByte block size with a text file with only few letters in it. MP3s and movie files conist of 256 KByte and even bigger blocks. If one for example copies 10'000 text files with a size of 25 MByte it takes much longer than copying a 25 MByte movie file. This is becauseauf of the access time which has a big influence with small files. Big files on the other hand aren't affected by the block size.

The throughout very well performance in sequential write and read is outstanding. With peaks of 109 MByte/s the Barracuda 7200.11 1 TByte reaches values which exceed even the claimed specifications of 105 MByte/s sustained read and write performance. As expected the performance breaks in when the hard drive does a lot of random read and random write operations. In this case you can clearly see the influence of 7'200 rpm against 15'000 rpm of a Cheetah high-end disk. But also in this test, compared to the other SATA competitors the Barracuda 7200.11 1 TByte does a good job but compared to the 1.5 TByte model there unfortunately is a performance gap.