fulldisk 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 testing with a Supermicro H8DA3-2 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Adaptec RAID 5 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Adaptec RAID 0 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Adaptec RAID 10 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Software Raid 5 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Software Raid 0 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 926.86 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 924.24 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 898.34 |======================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 883.89 |====================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 883.52 |====================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 877.01 |====================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 4.68 |= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 4.71 |= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 5.03 |= Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 325.83 |======================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 177.34 |====================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 4.96 |= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 360.27 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 348.83 |======================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 326.77 |==================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 21.23 |== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 53.37 |====== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 355.43 |======================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 1680.83 |===================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 1774.11 |======================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 1737.29 |====================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 73.70 |== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 149.49 |=== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 1694.40 |===================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 1285.39 |================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 1556.22 |======================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 1532.13 |====================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 185.01 |===== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 374.58 |========= Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 1513.53 |====================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 1078.93 |=============================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 1338.60 |======================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 1278.23 |===================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 271.09 |======== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 639.67 |=================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 1249.36 |==================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 275.79 |====================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 290.97 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 281.16 |======================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 15.26 |== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 31.02 |==== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 279.48 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 1338.55 |====================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 1368.30 |======================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 1197.66 |================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 1143.87 |================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 1329.34 |====================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 1346.32 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 587.06 |===================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 635.47 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 392.89 |========================= Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 320.04 |==================== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 598.03 |====================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 580.79 |===================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 640.03 |====================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 668.10 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 626.60 |====================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 559.31 |================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 626.28 |===================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 639.57 |====================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 164.28 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 165.68 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 164.36 |======================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 161.18 |======================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 162.85 |======================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 163.71 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 784.93 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 784.72 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 788.05 |======================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 781.93 |======================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 788.76 |======================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 789.51 |======================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 18.22 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 18.21 |======================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 17.68 |======================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 18.53 |========================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 17.77 |======================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 18.37 |========================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 2118 |========================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 2112 |========================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 2095 |========================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 2066 |========================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 2100 |========================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 2106 |========================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 27.38 |========================================= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 27.34 |========================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 27.27 |========================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 27.26 |========================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 27.33 |========================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 27.45 |========================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .......... 13598.97 |====================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .......... 13764.73 |====================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 ......... 13555.11 |===================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 ......... 13291.17 |===================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 ......... 13694.12 |====================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 nonjbod . 13587.42 |======================================