fio-1 2 x Intel Xeon E5520 testing with a Apple Mac-F221BEC8 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2009: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.39GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F221BEC8, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WD6400AAKS-4, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Monitor: KVM Monitor, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-29-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.9 Test: Example Network Job Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better 2009 . 69.65 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.9 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better 2009 . 3679.33 |===============================================================