Disk Intel Xeon E5440 testing with a QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. disk: Processor: Intel Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better disk . 151.38 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better disk . 199.87 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better disk . 217.52 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better disk . 189.83 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better disk . 454.87 |================================================================