raid6 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 testing with a Dell 0H21J3 and Matrox s G200eR2 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. raid6: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 3.20GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0H21J3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 24 x 16384 MB 2133MHz, Disk: 5758GB PERC H730 Mini, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-27-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4 raid6-a: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 3.20GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0H21J3, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 24 x 16384 MB 2133MHz, Disk: 5758GB PERC H730 Mini, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-27-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.4, File-System: ext4 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6 ... 1584.34 |=========================================================== raid6-a . 1614.15 |============================================================ SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better raid6 ... 13.40 |============================================================= raid6 ... 13.44 |============================================================= raid6-a . 13.52 |============================================================= raid6-a . 13.64 |============================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better raid6 ... 258.37 |============================================================= raid6-a . 225.13 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 1647.59 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 2153.40 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 1685.75 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 261.62 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 3193.89 |============================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 672.99 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 1904.82 |============================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 70.31 |============================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 1283.94 |============================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 283.61 |============================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 494.61 |============================================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better raid6-a . 10.91 |============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 2958 |=============================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better raid6-a . 13.67 |============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better raid6-a . 26322.25 |===========================================================