DRDB 2 x Intel Xeon E5606 testing with a Dell 00NH4P and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 00NH4P, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 67GB PERC H700 + 1933GB PERC H700, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 00NH4P, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 67GB PERC H700 + 1933GB PERC H700, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 20.62 |============================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 20.67 |============================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 45.68 |============================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 45.65 |============================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 15461.32 |=========================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 15378.76 |=========================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 2424.24 |============================ EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 2404.64 |============================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 131.19 |============================= EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 131.14 |============================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 581.72 |============================= EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 553.52 |============================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 851.59 |============================= EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 863.62 |============================= IOzone 3.347 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 162.44 |============================= EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 162.53 |============================= IOzone 3.347 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 4350.31 |============================ EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 4206.35 |=========================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 138.20 |============================= EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 138.86 |============================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 554.32 |============================= EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 544.53 |============================ Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 1004.65 |============================ EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 1001.75 |============================ Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 1062.24 |============================ EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 1070.88 |============================ FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 61.90 |============================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 62.17 |============================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 3673.70 |============================ EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 3670.46 |============================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 12636.76 |=========================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 12543.02 |=========================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 2.10 |=============================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 2.10 |=============================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 2812 |============================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 2881 |=============================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 1672.93 |============================ EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 1691.46 |============================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 ................ 17.03 |============================== EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 Secondary Node . 17.29 |==============================