fio1 2 x Intel Xeon E5506 testing with a IBM 69Y4438 and Matrox MGA G200EV on CentOS 6.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. fio1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5506 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: IBM 69Y4438, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB 800MHz, Disk: 499GB ServeRAID M1015, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200EV, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.0, Kernel: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20120305, File-System: ext4 Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better fio1 . 2770.47 |=============================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Example Network Job Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better fio1 . 11.59 |=================================================================