HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5-Inch 1TB SATA 3.0 HDD

For this latest round of HDD Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the following drives were benchmarked for reference purposes. With HDD benchmarks not being our biggest focus at Phoronix, it's just an assortment of HDD/SSDs that were lying around the office at the time of testing:

120GB Samsung SSD 840 - One solid-state drive was used for reference purposes. This 2.5-inch SSD has a Serial ATA 3.0 interface, uses TLC flash memory, and has a 120GB storage capacity.

1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00M - This Western Digital Caviar Green 3.5-inch HDD has a 1TB capacity, spins at 5400 RPM, only has a Serial ATA 1.0 interface, and a 64MB cache.

80GB Seagate ST980811AS - This Seagate Momentus 5400.3 is a classic 80GB laptop HDD. The Serial ATA 2.0 drive spins at 5400 RPM and has just an 8MB cache.

320GB Hitachi HTS54503 - A 5400RPM, 320GB, SATA 3.0 HDD drive originally from an Apple MacBook Pro.

1000GB HGST HTS721010A9 - The new internal 2.5-inch HDD at Phoronix with its 1TB capacity, 32MB cache, and 7200 RPM spin rate.

All disks were freshly formatted with an EXT4 file-system partition occupying the entire disk. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 was used for benchmarking with the Linux 3.13 kernel from an Intel Core i7 Haswell system. All benchmarking was facilitated using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite software.