maciej-disk-initial-1 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 testing with a Dell 0F0XJ6 and Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450 on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. dell3.5.2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.39GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0F0XJ6, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH9, Memory: 8 x 4096 MB DDR3, Disk: 146GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.3-btc (x86_64), Display Driver: matrox, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4 hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda MB/s > Higher Is Better dell3.5.2 . 156.04 |=========================================================== dell3.5.2 . 156.11 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better dell3.5.2 . 130.56 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better dell3.5.2 . 4281.89 |========================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better dell3.5.2 . 13.48 |============================================================