Thecus-N8800 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 testing with a HP 3031h and Intel 4 IGP on Debian 6.0.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. raid10-iscsi: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 2.99GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP 3031h, Chipset: Intel 4 + ICH10DO, Memory: 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 1024 MB + 1024 MB + 4096 kB DDR2-667MHz, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WDC WD1003FBYX-0 + 2997GB vg0i0, Graphics: Intel 4 IGP, Audio: Analog Devices AD1884A, Network: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 6.0.1, Kernel: 2.6.38-2-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext2/ext3 raid10-nfs: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 2.99GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: HP 3031h, Chipset: Intel 4 + ICH10DO, Memory: 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 1024 MB + 1024 MB + 4096 kB DDR2-667MHz, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WDC WD1003FBYX-0 + 2997GB vg0i0, Graphics: Intel 4 IGP, Audio: Analog Devices AD1884A, Network: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 6.0.1, Kernel: 2.6.38-2-amd64 (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 1024MB - Thread Count: 32 - Directory: Thecus MB/s > Higher Is Better raid10-iscsi . 94.23 |========================================================= raid10-nfs ... 42.59 |========================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 1024MB - Thread Count: 32 - Directory: Thecus MB/s > Higher Is Better raid10-iscsi . 59.41 |========================================================= raid10-nfs ... 3.87 |==== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 1024MB - Thread Count: 32 - Directory: Thecus MB/s > Higher Is Better raid10-iscsi . 55.46 |============================= raid10-nfs ... 105.83 |======================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 1024MB - Thread Count: 32 - Directory: Thecus MB/s > Higher Is Better raid10-iscsi . 2.63 |======================================= raid10-nfs ... 3.89 |==========================================================