AMDx2 Desktop AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ testing with a Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 and AMD Radeon X1300 256MB on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST31000524AS: Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2, Chipset: AMD ATI RS690 + SB600, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST31000524AS, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1300 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: Philips 190S5, Network: Realtek RTL-8110SC/8169SC OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.4 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 166 |=================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 2613.43 |=============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 2801.95 |=============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 430.08 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST31000524AS . 5077.01 |===============================================