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 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 |================================================== 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 |====== 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2600.59 |================================================== 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 |================= MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2709.73 |================================================== 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 |=============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 41.10 |============================================== 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2775.46 |================================================== 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 |=================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2868.99 |================================================== 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 |============================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 40.42 |========================================== 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 |============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 32.85 |================================================ 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 |============================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 34.49 |================================================= 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 |============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 34.42 |================================================= 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 |==================================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 32.29 |================================================= 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 |======================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 36.32 |================================================= 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 34.62 |=================================================== 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 3257.69 |================================================== 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 |==================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 3379.26 |================================================== 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 |============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 40.68 |============================================= 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2003.32 |============================================== 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 |=============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2062.42 |============================================== 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 |=============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 32.71 |================================================= 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 |=============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 33.60 |================================================ 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 |============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 33.72 |================================================= 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 31.78 |============================================ 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 |================================================ MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 32.12 |============================================ 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 |============================================= MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 2833.92 |================================================== 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 |=============================================== MAX HDD AHCI NOOP . 37.54 |===================================================