Iorate is a general purpose storage I/O benchmarking tool. Iorate was created in 1997 by Vince Westin of EMC while working with Cliff Burrell of FedEx to fill a need to perform a set of storage I/O benchmarks. Though Iorate was developed by EMC staff with EMC resources there are no EMC-specific pieces to the testing, it just tests storage. WWW: http://iorate.org/