IOzone vs lshw
A side-by-side look at IOzone and lshw. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
IOzone
System & Hardware
IOzone is an open source disk benchmark tool for testing file systems and hard drives. It measures performance for operations like read, write, re-read, re-write, backward read, and random seeks.
diskbenchmarkfilesystemperformance
lshw
System & Hardware
lshw is a small tool for displaying detailed information about the hardware configuration of a system. It can extract information such as CPU speed, memory size, firmware version, etc.
hardwaresystem-information