MAX HDD Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 testing with a Apple Mac-F42C89C8 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. MAX HDD: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F42C89C8, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 200GB FUJITSU MHY2200B, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB (470/635MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.6.2, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.30, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.30, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 MAX HDD AHCI: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F42C89C8, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 200GB FUJITSU MHY2200B, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB (470/635MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.30, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.30, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 MAX HDD AHCI2: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F42C89C8, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 200GB FUJITSU MHY2200B, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB (470/635MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.30, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.30, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 MAX HDD ORG: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F42C89C8, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 200GB FUJITSU MHY2200B, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB (470/635MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.30, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.30, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 MAX HDD AHCI NOOP: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F42C89C8, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 200GB FUJITSU MHY2200B, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB (470/635MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889A, Network: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit + Broadcom BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-21-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 313.30, OpenGL: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 313.30, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD ........... 13.35 |================================================= MAX HDD AHCI ...... 13.87 |=================================================== MAX HDD AHCI2 ..... 12.85 |=============================================== MAX HDD ORG ....... 14.23 |==================================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 14.03 |=================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD ........... 20.13 |============================================== MAX HDD AHCI ...... 22.87 |==================================================== MAX HDD AHCI2 ..... 21.87 |================================================== MAX HDD ORG ....... 20.13 |============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 22.75 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD ........... 13.10 |================================================= MAX HDD AHCI ...... 13.77 |==================================================== MAX HDD AHCI2 ..... 13.40 |================================================== MAX HDD ORG ....... 13.87 |==================================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 13.80 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD ........... 577.77 |=================================================== MAX HDD AHCI ...... 65.40 |====== MAX HDD AHCI2 ..... 63.73 |====== MAX HDD ORG ....... 58.93 |===== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 64.20 |====== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 ..... 9.32 |==================================================== MAX HDD ORG ....... 9.47 |===================================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 8.95 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 2572.63 |====================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 2481.55 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 81.73 |===== MAX HDD ORG ... 914.12 |======================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 46.71 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 42.66 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 2693.59 |====================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 2640.73 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 80.27 |== MAX HDD ORG ... 1995.39 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 49.70 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 41.68 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 35.58 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 31.80 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 36.38 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 30.47 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 36.36 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 32.06 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 33.70 |======================================================= MAX HDD ORG ... 34.37 |======================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 38.84 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 29.83 |=========================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 35.32 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 32.33 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 3157.37 |====================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 3108.32 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 80.57 |== MAX HDD ORG ... 2445.62 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 46.87 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 41.36 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 2160.55 |====================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 2083.49 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 2251.85 |====================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 2114.06 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 34.84 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 31.48 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 36.18 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 32.72 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 36.11 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 32.29 |================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 37.30 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 34.76 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 37.59 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 34.74 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 2630.53 |====================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 2575.06 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MAX HDD AHCI2 . 38.16 |======================================================== MAX HDD ORG ... 34.69 |===================================================