disk-test Intel Core i7 720Q testing with a Dell Precision M6500 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. first: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell Precision M6500, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD PB22 + 500GB TOSHIBA MK5056GS, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 1024MB (600/1000MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1C5, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit PCIe + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.17, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 two: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell Precision M6500, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD PB22 + 500GB TOSHIBA MK5056GS, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 1024MB (600/1000MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1C5, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit PCIe + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.17, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 three: Processor: Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell Precision M6500, Chipset: Intel Core DMI, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD PB22 + 500GB TOSHIBA MK5056GS, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 1024MB (600/1000MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1C5, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit PCIe + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-28-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.17, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 11654.37 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 11858.03 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 11693.11 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better first . 11980.87 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better two ... 10068.39 |=========================================================== three . 10324.27 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better three . 26.08 |================================ two ... 52.07 |================================================================