diskiotxtx AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A99X EVO and NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 2048MB on Fedora 24 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A99X EVO, Chipset: AMD RD9x0/RX980, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 + 500GB Seagate ST3500413AS + 120GB Corsair Neutron + 500GB 5AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 2048MB, Audio: AMD SBx00 Azalia, Monitor: HP 22bw, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 24, Kernel: 4.6.7-300.fc24.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160621, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 1938.30 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 1940.30 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 210.83 |============================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 209.01 |============================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 2159.80 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 2178.63 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 373.16 |============================================ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 374.46 |============================================