Old Config + SSD Raid AMD Phenom II X4 940 testing with a MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB on Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Kingston V200 RAID0: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376) v1.0, Chipset: ATI RD790 + SB600, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 2 x 256GB KINGSTON SV200S3, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.37, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 185.88 |================================================= Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 231.92 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 196.48 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 339.56 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 374.15 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 62.73 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 373.70 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 98.45 |================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 4970.13 |================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 18.21 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 141.83 |================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 82.47 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 464.92 |================================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 10.80 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 17.31 |================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Kingston V200 RAID0 . 565.06 |=================================================