testbench 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 testing with a Supermicro X9DRD-iF and Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450 on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST33000650NS: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 @ 2.60GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRD-iF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR3-1600MHz Kingston, Disk: 2 x 3001GB Seagate ST33000650NS, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.3 20140911, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST33000650NS . 11.63 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST33000650NS . 28.65 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST33000650NS . 46.05 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 48 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST33000650NS . 101.09 |================================================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST33000650NS . 139.46 |================================================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 256 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST33000650NS . 144.56 |================================================