DRDB2 (failed to one) 2 x Intel Xeon E5606 testing with a Dell 00NH4P and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite. EXT4 Raid 5: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 00NH4P, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 67GB PERC H700 + 1933GB PERC H700, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Linux, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 20.72 |========================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 8.10 |=========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 15308.39 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 2665.38 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 136.72 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 637.73 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 882.45 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 344.31 |========================================================= IOzone 3.347 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 4141.64 |======================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 366.02 |========================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 1828.30 |======================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 2209.23 |======================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 1737.41 |======================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 204.48 |========================================================= Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 3708.43 |======================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 12915.44 |======================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 2.11 |=========================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 2986 |=========================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 1677.64 |======================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better EXT4 Raid 5 . 16.88 |==========================================================