[CentOS] Benchmark Disk IO

[John R Pierce]

przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:
> The above numbers are true if we have random (!) IO pattern.
> In case of sequential (!) IO even SATA disks can deliver much, much higher numbers.
>   


sequential IO is remarkably rare in a typical server environment

anyways, the IOPS numbers on sequential operations aren't much higher, 
they are just transferring more data per operation.