Demo XFS v EXT4 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 testing with a Supermicro X9DRE-TF+/X9DR7-TF+ v1.02 and Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450 on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. XFS: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 3.60GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRE-TF+/X9DR7-TF+ v1.02, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 24 x 16384 MB DDR3-1066MHz, Disk: 22 x 800GB S841E800M2 + 2 x 400GB S841E400M2 + 2 x 128GB SanDisk SD7UB3Q1 + 2 x 1074GB PVL-MX08S1P2L2C1-F100TP1TY1, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 + Mellanox MT27520 Family OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 XFS-ssd: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 3.60GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRE-TF+/X9DR7-TF+ v1.02, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 24 x 16384 MB DDR3-1066MHz, Disk: 22 x 800GB S841E800M2 + 2 x 400GB S841E400M2 + 2 x 128GB SanDisk SD7UB3Q1 + 2 x 1074GB PVL-MX08S1P2L2C1-F100TP1TY1, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 + Mellanox MT27520 Family OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: /tmp/testing Seconds < Lower Is Better XFS . 4.24 |=================================================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: /var/groupon/percona/pwa_prod/tmp Seconds < Lower Is Better XFS-ssd . 159.74 |=============================================================