tuxmint38rc2_iozone Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 testing with a ASUS P5G41T-M LE and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS on LinuxMint 14 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1: Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P5G41T-M LE, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH7, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS, Audio: Realtek ALC887, Monitor: DELL U2410, Network: Atheros AR8131 Gigabit OS: LinuxMint 14, Kernel: 3.8.0-rc2-core2x86 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 3.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 1.0.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1 . 119.67 |============================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1 . 106.19 |============================================