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 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 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 20.62 |============================================= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 20.72 |============================================= SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 45.68 |============================================= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 8.10 |======== Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 15461.32 |========================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 15308.39 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 2424.24 |======================================= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 2665.38 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 131.19 |========================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 136.72 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 581.72 |======================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 637.73 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 851.59 |========================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 882.45 |============================================ IOzone 3.347 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 162.44 |===================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 344.31 |============================================ IOzone 3.347 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 4350.31 |=========================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 4141.64 |========================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 138.20 |================= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 366.02 |============================================ Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 554.32 |============= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 1828.30 |=========================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 1004.65 |==================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 2209.23 |=========================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 1062.24 |========================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 1737.41 |=========================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 61.90 |============= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 204.48 |============================================ 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 Raid 5 .............. 3708.43 |=========================================== 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 Raid 5 .............. 12915.44 |========================================== 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 Raid 5 .............. 2.11 |============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 2812 |=========================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 2986 |============================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 1672.93 |=========================================== EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 1677.64 |=========================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Whole Disk - Raid 5 . 17.03 |============================================= EXT4 Raid 5 .............. 16.88 |=============================================