iozone-05-26 just for testing haha: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 10240MB, Disk: 74GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: cirrus 1.3.2, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3 IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better haha . 646.34 |================================================================ IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better haha . 5118.74 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better haha . 816.95 |================================================================ IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better haha . 5740.20 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better haha . 821.67 |================================================================ IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better haha . 5236.10 |===============================================================