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Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Seagate ST3320620AS: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 320GB Seagate ST3320620AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 OCZ Solid 2: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 64GB OCZ ILITY, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Seagate ST980811AS: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34(FX) (MS-7641) v4.0, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 + 80GB Seagate ST980811AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Seagate ST3000DM001: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 (MS-7758) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1 + 62GB OCZ VERTEX PLUS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1024MB (993/2700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.5, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 310.14, OpenGL: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + CUDA 5.0, File-System: reiserfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 18.50 |============== Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 16.73 |============= Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 13.77 |========== OCZ Solid 2 .................. 53.96 |========================================= Seagate ST980811AS ........... 11.62 |========= Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 21.27 |================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 42.13 |=================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 41.60 |================== Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 30.27 |============= OCZ Solid 2 .................. 93.20 |========================================= Seagate ST980811AS ........... 21.53 |========= Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 38.93 |================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 16.85 |============= Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 16.60 |============= Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 17.73 |============== OCZ Solid 2 .................. 53.10 |========================================= Seagate ST980811AS ........... 10.53 |======== Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 21.92 |================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 85.44 | Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 113.69 | Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 66.75 | OCZ Solid 2 .................. 222.71 |= Seagate ST980811AS ........... 40.06 | Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 10518.07 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 84.84 | Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 129.14 |= Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 63.70 | OCZ Solid 2 .................. 222.80 |= Seagate ST980811AS ........... 38.39 | Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 9542.56 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 84.37 |======================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 126.13 |==================================== Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 57.98 |================ OCZ Solid 2 .................. 126.15 |==================================== Seagate ST980811AS ........... 34.15 |========== Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 141.30 |======================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 81.53 |======================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 125.29 |==================================== Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 54.04 |=============== OCZ Solid 2 .................. 125.54 |==================================== Seagate ST980811AS ........... 30.95 |========= Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 140.97 |======================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 80.47 | Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 125.30 | Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 51.15 | OCZ Solid 2 .................. 222.71 |= Seagate ST980811AS ........... 40.00 | Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 11387.01 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 80.68 |======================= Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 122.13 |================================== Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 54.73 |=============== OCZ Solid 2 .................. 125.54 |=================================== Seagate ST980811AS ........... 31.04 |========= Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 142.64 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 67.08 |============= Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 85.90 |================ Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 47.75 |========= OCZ Solid 2 .................. 106.65 |==================== Seagate ST980811AS ........... 28.22 |===== Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 209.17 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 87.94 |=================================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 95.77 |====================================== Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 60.86 |======================== OCZ Solid 2 .................. 100.46 |======================================== Seagate ST980811AS ........... 40.82 |================ Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 15.20 |====== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 972 |============================== Western Digital WD1003FBYX-0 . 1069 |================================= Seagate ST3320620AS .......... 607 |=================== OCZ Solid 2 .................. 1145 |==================================== Seagate ST980811AS ........... 432 |============= Seagate ST3000DM001 .......... 1354 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD5000AZRX-0 . 167.14 |========================================