fio-bench AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX and AMD TONGA 4096MB on Gentoo/Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing: Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.51GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB INTEL SSDSC2BP24 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 + 3000GB VD10-0, Graphics: AMD TONGA 4096MB, Monitor: BenQ BL2201 OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.9.6-gentoo-r1 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.1.0, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.0.1 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.4 + Clang 3.9.0 + LLVM 3.9.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 5040x1050 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 479 |======================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 1.98 |======================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 39 |========================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 0.45 |======================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 40766 |====================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 163.24 |===================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: IOPS IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 11059 |====================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate 7200.14 / smart failing . 56.50 |======================================