RAID comparison
AMD FX-4100 testing with a Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H and AMD Radeon HD 4250 128MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


zfs w/o l2arc and zil: 

	Processor: AMD FX-4100 @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB 1333MHz, Disk: 60GB KINGSTON SVP200S + 3 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000VX000-9YW1 + 4 x 3000GB RAID SAS 6G 0/1, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4250 128MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: amd, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 15.23 |================================================


SQLite 3.7.3
12,500 INSERTs
Seconds < Lower Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 50.13 |================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.2.21
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 17335.82 |=============================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 194.83 |===============================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 346.12 |===============================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Read Compiled Tree
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 465.28 |===============================================


IOzone 3.405
8GB Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 239.04 |===============================================


IOzone 3.405
8GB Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 330.71 |===============================================


Dbench 4.0
1 Clients
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 177.94 |===============================================


Dbench 4.0
12 Clients
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 624.80 |===============================================


Dbench 4.0
48 Clients
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 693.20 |===============================================


Dbench 4.0
128 Clients
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 639.71 |===============================================


FS-Mark 3.3
1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 124.80 |===============================================


Flexible IO Tester 1.57
Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern
Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 151.67 |===============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Read - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 5080.31 |==============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Write - 32 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 146.75 |===============================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 2639 |=================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
zfs w/o l2arc and zil . 12.73 |================================================