wind1 Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 testing with a Dell 03NVJ6 and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST9250410AS - Intel Core 2 Duo E7500: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 03NVJ6, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10DO, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST9250410AS + 500GB Seagate ST9500420AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE 512MB (540/500MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1984A, Network: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-74-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.6, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST9250410AS - Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 . 2442 |========================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST9250410AS - Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 . 3745.89 |======================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST9250410AS - Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 . 4220.24 |======================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST9250410AS - Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 . 80.49 |========================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST9250410AS - Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 . 12416.78 |======================