seven-disk VMware testing on Debian 6.0.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. seven-disk-debian: Processor: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 3.4.6 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware seven-disk-7box: Processor: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Slackware 14.0, Kernel: 3.4.7 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 178.84 |=================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better seven-disk-debian . 19.85 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 87.73 |==================================================== seven-disk-7box ... 86.40 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 639.99 |=================================================== seven-disk-7box ... 640.76 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 825.94 |================================================== seven-disk-7box ... 834.17 |=================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-7box . 57.02 |======================================================