First Test Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST380815AS - Intel Core i5-2500K: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 80GB Seagate ST380815AS + 500GB Hitachi HDS72105 + 1000GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6800 1024MB (915/1050MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.5, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: fglrx 9.1.11, OpenGL: 4.2.12002, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST380815AS - Intel Core i5-2500K . 5163 |============================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST380815AS - Intel Core i5-2500K . 7203.56 |=========================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST380815AS - Intel Core i5-2500K . 7667.52 |=========================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST380815AS - Intel Core i5-2500K . 45.03 |============================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST380815AS - Intel Core i5-2500K . 32886.30 |==========================