IOzone1 Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 testing with a Apple Mac-F222BEC8 v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce 320M/ /SSE2 256MB on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. IOzone11: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 @ 2.39GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F222BEC8 v1.0, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP89, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ SOLID3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M/ /SSE2 256MB (450/1064MHz), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 295.40, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x800 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IOzone11 . 194.44 |============================================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IOzone11 . 170.74 |============================================================