iozone-benchmark AMD Phenom II X4 955 testing with a ASUS M4A88TD-M and AMD [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] 512MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Reference: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A88TD-M, Chipset: AMD RS880, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB KINGSTON SV300S3 + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 + 1500GB Seagate ST31500541AS, Graphics: AMD [AMD/ATI] RS880 [Radeon HD 4250] 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: AE-700, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080i IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Reference . 3444.88 |========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Reference . 418.23 |===========================================================