ESXi SSD vs HDD benchmark
Fysical hardware: i7 3930K (6 cores), 16 GB RAM, Plextor 128M2P, Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB. Virtual hardware: 12 cores, 14 GB RAM
SSD
Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8192 MB + 4096 MB + 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-16-server (x86_64), Display Driver: vmware, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Python 2.7.2+.
Gzip Compression
SQLite
Apache Benchmark
Compile Bench
IOzone
Dbench
Dbench is a benchmark designed by the Samba project as a free alternative to netbench, but dbench contains only file-system calls for testing the disk performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
FS-Mark
Flexible IO Tester
Threaded I/O Tester
PostMark
Unpacking The Linux Kernel
SSD
Processor: Intel Core i7-3930K @ 3.20GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8192 MB + 4096 MB + 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-16-server (x86_64), Display Driver: vmware, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Python 2.7.2+.
Testing initiated at 16 February 2012 10:14 by user root.