For disk I/O I'm pretty sure you'll love Bonnie++. I also ran a lot of benchmark with sysbench (can test disk, cpu, memory, etc.). While sysbench is less specialized than Bonnie++, it is great if you need the big picture between two machines or to measure improvements over two version of a similar hardware.
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