AHCI mode VS IDE mode
AMD E-350 testing with a Acer JE40_BZ and AMD Radeon HD 6310 256MB on SUSE LINUX 12.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


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 (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless

	OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.5.0-TuoLei-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

IDE 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 (200/533MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Atheros AR9287 Wireless

	OS: SUSE LINUX 12.1, Kernel: 3.5.0-TuoLei-1.16-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.2.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6 + Open64 5.0 + PathScale 4.0.12.1 + Clang, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 114606 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 106828 |=======================================================


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 37.29 |============================================================
IDE mode .. 30.26 |=================================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 6
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 17.64 |============================================================
IDE mode .. 17.62 |============================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 1045.48 |==========================================================
IDE mode .. 1045.44 |==========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 1632.25 |=========================================================
IDE mode .. 1654.96 |==========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 187.76 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 182.43 |=========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 204.60 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 196.35 |=========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 1817.09 |==========================================================
IDE mode .. 1822.63 |==========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 207.57 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 195.00 |=======================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 157.26 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 120.51 |=============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 94.82  |==================================
IDE mode .. 162.94 |===========================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 68.59 |============================================================
IDE mode .. 36.85 |================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 25.37 |============================================================
IDE mode .. 20.98 |==================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 162.16 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 161.33 |===========================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 37.83 |============================================================
IDE mode .. 36.76 |==========================================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 97.92  |======================================================
IDE mode .. 106.57 |===========================================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
AHCI mode . 373 |==============================================================
IDE mode .. 362 |============================================================


Flexible IO Tester 1.57
Test: Example Network Job
Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better
AHCI mode . 30.67 |===========================================================
IDE mode .. 31.18 |============================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
AHCI mode . 42.32 |============================================================
IDE mode .. 40.13 |=========================================================