seven-disk VMware testing on Slackware 14.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. seven-disk-7box: Processor: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 32GB 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-7box . 136.33 |===================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better seven-disk-7box . 343.05 |===================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-7box . 56.35 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 89.53 |====================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 629.37 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 822.09 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 806.67 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 234.72 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 103.69 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 114.29 |===================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 59.63 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 37.05 |====================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-7box . 13.47 |====================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-7box . 15.75 |====================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better seven-disk-7box . 8740.84 |====================================================