ahci vs ide
AMD E-350 testing with a Acer JE40_BZ and AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB on Fedora 16 (Verne) via the Phoronix Test Suite.
IDE mode
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / relatime,rw,seclabel,space_cache
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Python 2.7.3. SELinux: Enabled.
AHCI mode
Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (492/533MHz), Audio: ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless
OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.3.7 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.96.4 Catalyst 12.4, OpenGL: 4.2.11631, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.1 + LLVM 3.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768
BlogBench
Compile Bench
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.
Flexible IO Tester
IOzone
The IOzone benchmark tests the hard disk drive / file-system performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
PostMark
Threaded I/O Tester
Unpacking The Linux Kernel
IDE mode
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / relatime,rw,seclabel,space_cache
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Python 2.7.3. SELinux: Enabled.
Testing initiated at 3 June 2012 09:25 by user wwj.
AHCI mode
Processor: AMD E-350 @ 1.60GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Acer JE40_BZ, Chipset: AMD Family 14h Root Complex, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 320GB TOSHIBA MK3265GS, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB (492/533MHz), Audio: ATI Wrestler HDMI Audio, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless
OS: Fedora 16 (Verne), Kernel: 3.3.7 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.11.4, Display Driver: fglrx 8.96.4 Catalyst 12.4, OpenGL: 4.2.11631, Compiler: GCC 4.6.3 20120306 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang 3.1 + LLVM 3.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768
Disk Notes: DEADLINE / relatime,rw,seclabel,space_cache
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE. Python 2.7.3. SELinux: Enabled.
Testing initiated at 3 June 2012 10:09 by user wwj.