opt 3 sys test Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD10EURX-73C: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EURX-73C + 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB (576/999MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-11-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.1, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 325.15, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EURX-73C . 2049 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EURX-73C . 3893.68 |======================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EURX-73C . 4220.08 |======================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD10EURX-73C . 51.40 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD10EURX-73C . 10509.70 |======================================