Iozone AMD Phenom II X3 710 testing with a ASUS M4A78-EM and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB on archlinux rolling via the Phoronix Test Suite. Hitachi HDS72101: Processor: AMD Phenom II X3 710 @ 2.60GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A78-EM, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 1000GB Hitachi HDS72101 + 400GB Seagate ST3400820A + 250GB Maxtor 6L250R0, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (600/900MHz), Audio: AMD ATI SBx00 Azalia, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: archlinux rolling, Kernel: 3.5.4-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: KDE, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 304.51, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 304.51, Compiler: GCC 4.7.1 20120721, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HDS72101 . 3269.20 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HDS72101 . 3147.84 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HDS72101 . 101.34 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HDS72101 . 100.91 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HDS72101 . 3364.34 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Hitachi HDS72101 . 101.89 |====================================================