aaa Intel Core i7-4770 testing with a MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0 and Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. aaa: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI H87-G43 (MS-7816) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 256GB Crucial_CT256MX1, Graphics: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core IGP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4 Flexible IO Tester 2.2.10 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /mysqldata MB/s > Higher Is Better aaa . 405.36 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /mysqldata IOPS > Higher Is Better aaa . 101336 |=================================================================