zfs3 Intel Xeon testing with a Apple Mac Pro and ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB on OS X 10.9.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N: Processor: Intel Xeon @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac Pro, Chipset: Intel ICH10, Memory: 8 x 4096 MB DDR3-1066MHz, Disk: 256GB HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB, Monitor: DELL U2412M OS: OS X 10.9.2, Kernel: 13.1.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.38) (based on LLVM 3.4svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 5.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z87-DELUXE/QUAD, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 4 x 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection I217-V + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.0, Display Server: X Server 1.15.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8 + Clang 3.3-16ubuntu1, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N ................. 362.85 |=============================== Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 260.95 |====================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N ................. 47.12 |========== Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 153.23 |=============================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N ................. 228.01 |==== Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 1568.14 |============================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N ................. 19.80 |================================ Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 7.83 |============= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N ................. 1222 |====== Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 6581 |================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N ................. 17.29 |================================ Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770K . 11.02 |==================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N . 2415.66 |==============================================