configuration
2 x Intel Xeon E5345 testing with a Supermicro X7DB8 and AMD ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Anniversary, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + 60GB Corsair Force 3, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.3.3-2-ARCH (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x1200

SunFire x4100: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 275 @ 2.19GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Sun Fire X4100 Server, Chipset: AMD K8, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 73GB Seagate ST973401LSUN72G, Graphics: AMD Rage XL PCI, Network: Intel 82546EB Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024

24 Disk Array: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5345 @ 2.33GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X7DB8, Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 100GB Hitachi HTS721010G9SA00, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel 80003ES2LAN Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-25-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 6881 |==================================
SunFire x4100 ........................ 1356 |=======
24 Disk Array ........................ 1802 |=========


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 14860.44 |==============================
SunFire x4100 ........................ 2350.57  |=====
24 Disk Array ........................ 4493.61  |=========


BLAKE2 20130131
Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.1
Cycles Per Byte < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 5.07  |===========
SunFire x4100 ........................ 15.89 |=================================
24 Disk Array ........................ 9.74  |====================


x264 2015-11-02
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 183.57 |================================
SunFire x4100 ........................ 34.36  |======
24 Disk Array ........................ 101.29 |==================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 21961 |=================================
SunFire x4100 ........................ 6210  |=========
24 Disk Array ........................ 14163 |=====================


ebizzy 0.3
Phoronix Test Suite v6.0.1
Records/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 157716 |================================
SunFire x4100 ........................ 5829   |=
24 Disk Array ........................ 24995  |=====


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 116.80 |==========
SunFire x4100 ........................ 389.15 |================================
24 Disk Array ........................ 173.38 |==============


FFmpeg 2.8.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 9.98  |=========
SunFire x4100 ........................ 35.09 |=================================
24 Disk Array ........................ 26.05 |========================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 - Intel Core i7-4770 . 36964.78 |==============================
SunFire x4100 ........................ 8936.63  |=======
24 Disk Array ........................ 11492.39 |=========