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 RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5: 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 |====== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 1975.63 |=================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 126.90 |==================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 19.03 |===== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 582.20 |==================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 54.36 |=== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 653.34 |==================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 129.87 |======= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 581.29 |==================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 169.24 |========== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 177.78 |==================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 19.75 |==== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 289.94 |============== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 740.75 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 226.56 |=============== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 537.96 |==================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 5102.22 |=================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 5052.16 |=================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 87.07 |===================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 6.09 |=== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 12.66 |===================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 12.83 |===================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 15.27 |===================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 15.30 |===================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better bare KINGSTON SSD ................ 17871.76 |================================== RAID5 over 7 Seagate 3TB SV 35.5 . 17221.20 |=================================