iozone3 AMD FX-6300 Six-Core testing with a ASRock N68-S3 FX and NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 1024MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. disk: Processor: AMD FX-6300 Six-Core @ 3.50GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock N68-S3 FX, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 + 500GB SAMSUNG HD502HI, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 1024MB (520/500MHz), Audio: VIA VT1705, Network: Realtek RTL8169 PCI Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 319.60, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better disk . 303.72 |================================================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better disk . 309.27 |================================================================