compression-run01 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 testing on CentOS Linux 7.0.1406 via the Phoronix Test Suite. compression-run01: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 @ 3.50GHz (48 Cores), Motherboard: Cisco s UCSB-B200-M3, Memory: 24 x 16384 MB DDR3-1866MHz, Disk: 598GB MRSASRoMB-4i + 4 x 43GB VRAID + 16 x 4398GB VRAID OS: CentOS Linux 7.0.1406, Kernel: 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20140120, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better compression-run01 . 92257 |==================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compression-run01 . 14.40 |==================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better compression-run01 . 113.63 |===================================================