diskhammer-baseline 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 testing with a Supermicro X7DB8 and AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Software RAID6 array - healthy array: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X7DB8, Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 10 x 2199GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1, Graphics: AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB, Network: Intel 80003ES2LAN Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-33-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: amd, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 19.35 |================================= SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 1411.45 |=============================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 143.85 |================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 73.49 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 98.36 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 328.37 |================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 36.73 |================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 594.00 |================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 13.71 |================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 45.18 |================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 59.45 |================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 48.47 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 3.90 |================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 2818.03 |=============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 4577.26 |=============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 1.23 |================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 2083 |================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Software RAID6 array - healthy array . 13.80 |=================================