r2 Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 testing with a Gigabyte Z77X-D3H and Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB on Arch rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST31000340AS: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-D3H, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000340AS + 60GB OCZ VERTEX2 + 3 x 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00D + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EZRX-00M, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 3072MB, Audio: VIA VT2020, Monitor: G2420HDBL, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 3.12.5-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.10.2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000340AS . 7553.73 |===============================================