oldsysdisk Intel Core i5 660 testing with a HP 304Ah and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 256MB on SUSE LINUX 11.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Old Sys Disk: Processor: Intel Core i5 660 @ 3.47GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP 304Ah, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB SAMSUNG HD502HJ, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 256MB (540/695MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev1, Network: Intel 82578DM Gigabit Connection OS: SUSE LINUX 11.2, Kernel: 2.6.31.14-0.8-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.3.5, Display Server: X Server 1.6.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 195.36.15, OpenGL: 3.2.0 NVIDIA 195.36.15, Compiler: GCC 4.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1080 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Old Sys Disk . 17.84 |========================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 7813.00 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 112.50 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 133.05 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 361.22 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 486.54 |======================================================== IOzone 3.347 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 99.72 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 136.20 |======================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 8.46 |========================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 22.26 |========================================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 24.30 |========================================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 27.65 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 9.18 |========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Old Sys Disk . 5928.17 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 5056.34 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 5.99 |========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 3988 |========================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Old Sys Disk . 1413.66 |======================================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Old Sys Disk . 12.53 |=========================================================