diskish 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 testing with a Supermicro X8DTL and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Debian 6.0.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite. boran: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTL, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 49152MB, Disk: 1999GB MR9260-4i, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Audio: Intel 82801JI, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 6.0.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better boran . 63.61 |================================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better boran . 2.10 |================================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better boran . 23600.71 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better boran . 19602.18 |=============================================================