serv1 2 x Intel Xeon L5520 testing on CentOS 6.4 (Final) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST3250310NS: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 5442, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310NS + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 OS: CentOS 6.4 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 Intel Xeon L5520: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.27GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 5442, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 250GB Seagate ST3250310NS + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH1 OS: CentOS 6.4 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST3250310NS . 1776.10 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon L5520 . 7.05 |======================================================