hdparm vertex4 AMD Phenom II X6 1090T testing with a MSI 870S-G54 (MS-7599) v3.0 and AMD Radeon HD 3450 512MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. vertex4 linuxease: Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: MSI 870S-G54 (MS-7599) v3.0, Chipset: AMD ATI RX780/RX790, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 64GB OCZ VERTEX4, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3450 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda MB/s > Higher Is Better vertex4 linuxease . 352.32 |=================================================== hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda1 MB/s > Higher Is Better vertex4 linuxease . 342.62 |=================================================== hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda5 MB/s > Higher Is Better vertex4 linuxease . 430.05 |===================================================