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. bare KINGSTON SSD: 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: 3.2.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 315.78 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 126.90 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 582.20 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 653.34 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 581.29 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 177.78 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 289.94 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 226.56 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 5102.22 |================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 87.07 |==================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 12.66 |==================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 15.27 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD . 17871.76 |=================================================