AHCI vs IDE
AMD E-350 testing with a Acer JE40_BZ and AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB on Fedora 16 (Verne) via the Phoronix Test Suite.


AHCI: 

	Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (492/533MHz), Audio: ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless

	OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.2.11-EKOPath (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.93.4 Catalyst 12.1, OpenGL: 4.2.11399, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

IDE: 

	Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (492/533MHz), Audio: ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless

	OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.2.11-EKOPath (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.93.4 Catalyst 12.1, OpenGL: 4.2.11399, Compiler: GCC 4.6.2 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.0 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 60.43 |========================================================
IDE .. 70.52 |=================================================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 94040 |=================================================================
IDE .. 88426 |=============================================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Write
Final Score > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 838  |==================================================
IDE .. 1114 |==================================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 28.47 |=================================================================
IDE .. 27.98 |================================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 153.52 |================================================================
IDE .. 147.02 |=============================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 28.87 |=====================================================
IDE .. 35.58 |=================================================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 1
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 5.81 |===============================================================
IDE .. 6.04 |==================================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 246.98 |================================================================
IDE .. 248.80 |================================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 1418.56 |==============================================================
IDE .. 1451.49 |===============================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 350.70 |================================================================
IDE .. 349.99 |================================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 1733.35 |===============================================================
IDE .. 1741.76 |===============================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 329.91 |=============================================================
IDE .. 347.53 |================================================================


IOzone 3.347
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 992.29  |=============================================================
IDE .. 1020.56 |===============================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 609 |===================================================================
IDE .. 581 |================================================================


SQLite 3.7.3
Test Target: Default Test Directory
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AHCI . 2516.38 |===============================================================
IDE .. 2222.62 |========================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 163.84 |===========================================================
IDE .. 176.70 |================================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 17.36 |====================================================
IDE .. 21.64 |=================================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 1886.99 |===============================================================
IDE .. 1750.86 |==========================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI . 1455.79 |===============================================================
IDE .. 1343.51 |==========================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AHCI . 46.19 |=================================================================
IDE .. 46.17 |=================================================================