Fio-All-Options Intel Xeon X5650 testing with a HP HP Z600 Workstation under CentOS 5.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Fio-All-Options: Processor: Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.66GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: HP HP Z600 Workstation, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HDS72105, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1024MB (625/1304MHz) OS: CentOS 5.6, Kernel: 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.16.0, Display Server: X Server 7.1.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 270.41.19, OpenGL: 4.1.0 NVIDIA 270.41.19, Compiler: GCC 4.1.2, File-System: ext3, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Flexible IO Tester 1.21 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Fio-All-Options . 40.55 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.21 Test: Example Network Job Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Fio-All-Options . 6.45 |=======================================================