localdisk Intel Xeon E5645 testing with a Bochs and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. diskio: Processor: Intel Xeon E5645 @ 2.39GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB RAM, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 3959.88 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 3.00 |================================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 4921.66 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 78.56 |=============================================================== hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/vda MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 85.62 |=============================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 197.23 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 125.15 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 127.30 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 96.41 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 99.42 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 130.50 |============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskio . 95.82 |=============================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better diskio . 407496 |==============================================================