Random and sequential speeds with IOmeter

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I was wondering if anyone could help me, with my doubt:

It's the "Workstation" test in the IOmeter (8KB, 80% Read, 80% Random) and the 30GB "short-stroked" HDD (single or striped no matter) ...

Can anyone do a little test with the IOmeter measuring area limited to the first 30GB ("Maximum disk size" set to 30GB) and after that do a bench of a normal (non-stroked) empty HDD with a first partition of 30GB (IOmeter also set to 30GB "Maximum disk size").

Reason: I have a hypothesis to prove

TNX M8's