nst5100-disk-readcache-15_1TB_SATA_drives VMware testing on CentOS 6.4 (Final) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1100GB Virtual disk OS: CentOS 6.4 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 48.31 |================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 605.12 |================================= SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 866.39 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 10.73 |================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 83.74 |================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 127.42 |================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 162.83 |================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 10.16 |================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 111.33 |================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 79.29 |================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 5460.10 |================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 4.28 |=================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 94.96 |================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 60.20 |================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 256.01 |================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 24.07 |================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 2907 |=================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 18.50 |================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 11623.85 |===============================