server-old AMD Athlon 4850e testing on Gentoo 2.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST31500341AS: Processor: AMD Athlon 4850e @ 2.51GHz (2 Cores), Chipset: NVIDIA C51, Memory: 4 x 2048 MB 400MHz, Disk: 1500GB Seagate ST31500341AS + 2000GB Seagate ST32000644NS, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce 6100, Audio: NVIDIA MCP51 HD Audio, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5703 Gigabit OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.8.6-hardened (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3, File-System: ext4 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 50.43 |================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 3010.16 |=============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 3006.92 |=============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 4382.27 |=============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 153.91 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 35.70 |================================================= FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 43.55 |================================================= GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 17.11 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31500341AS . 3759.43 |===============================================