IO AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.01GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z, Chipset: AMD, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 + 64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2 + 320GB Hitachi HTS725032A9A364, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2048MB (705/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Intel 82583V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-53-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.32, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 342.37 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 4465.30 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 355.88 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 5839.01 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 355.95 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 5486.16 |==============================================================