inital Intel Xeon E5420 testing with a HP ProLiant BL460c G1 under Ubuntu 11.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Initial test with SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant BL460c G1, Chipset: Intel 5000P MCH, Memory: 8 x 4096 MB DDR2-667MHz, Disk: 95GB, Graphics: ATI ES1000 OS: Ubuntu 11.04, Kernel: 2.6.38-11-server (x86_64), Display Driver: ati, Compiler: GCC 4.5.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Initial test with SSD . 27.00 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Initial test with SSD . 871.33 |=============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Initial test with SSD . 14.13 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Initial test with SSD . 16.77 |================================================