Drive INTEL SSDSA2CW080G3 80GB hdparm -t /dev/sda Timing buffered disk reads: 682 MB in 3.00 seconds = 227.20 MB/sec Drive Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 500GB hdparm -t /dev/sdb Timing buffered disk reads: 328 MB in 3.02 seconds = 108.70 MB/sec Drive Panasonic (Matsushita) HDC-SD40/SD 8GB hdparm -t /dev/sdc Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 3.19 seconds = 10.02 MB/sec