compare-my-disk Intel Xeon E31245 testing with a ASUS P8B WS and Intel Xeon E3-1200 Family IGP on Gentoo 2.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. hitachi: Processor: Intel Xeon E31245 @ 3.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8B WS, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 Family DRAM, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz SUPERTALENT02, Disk: 3001GB Hitachi HDS72303 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 128GB SAMSUNG MZNTE128, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 Family IGP (1350MHz), Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Gentoo 2.2, Kernel: 3.17.1-gentoo-r1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.2, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.916, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.3.1, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1 + Clang 3.5.0 + LLVM 3.5.0 + CUDA 6.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 2211.32 |============================================================ SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better hitachi . 1583.41 |============================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 20.33 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 27.82 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 48.13 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 60.18 |============================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 10.95 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 6893.85 |============================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 100.55 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better hitachi . 11099.27 |=========================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better hitachi . 10.76 |============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better hitachi . 4936 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better hitachi . 14.07 |============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better hitachi . 23104.25 |===========================================================