Comparativa RAID 1 vs 10 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 testing with a Supermicro X10DRU-i+ and ASPEED ASPEED Family on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. RAID 1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DRU-i+, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 8 x 8192 MB 2133MHz Samsung, Disk: 998GB SMC2108, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 1866.36 |============================================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better RAID 1 . 4.66 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 85.60 |=============================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 6706.05 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 5732.28 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 2334.20 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 655.71 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 4096.36 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 121.26 |============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 9855.92 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 3.29 |================================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better RAID 1 . 9.04 |================================================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 4191 |================================================================ Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better RAID 1 . 12.38 |=============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better RAID 1 . 29139.93 |============================================================