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. baseline idle 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 + 2 x 2199GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1, 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: 1024x768 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better baseline idle array . 19.54 |================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better baseline idle array . 1337.03 |================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 145.90 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 77.86 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 95.63 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 274.88 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 36.29 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 601.42 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 13.95 |================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 44.88 |================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 56.89 |================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 48.49 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 4.07 |=================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better baseline idle array . 2823.17 |================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 4609.37 |================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 1.23 |=================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better baseline idle array . 2159 |=================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better baseline idle array . 13.41 |==================================================