diskIO AMD Athlon II X2 250 testing with a ASUS M4A78LT-M-LE and AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. diskIO: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A78LT-M-LE, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB SAMSUNG HM321HI, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3000 256MB, Audio: VIA VT1708S, Monitor: LCD175VXM+, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.99.99, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskIO . 84.19 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskIO . 79.10 |===============================================================