DiskIO 2 x AMD Opteron 2347 HE testing with a Supermicro H8DM8-2 and AMD ES1000 128MB on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2347 HE @ 1.91GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DM8-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB DDR2-266MHz, Disk: 500GB HGST HTS725050A7 + 6 x 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL004 HD20 + 2 x 32GB SanDisk SDSSDRC0 + 5 x 3001GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 + 300GB Maxtor 6L300S0, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 XFS-LVM-RAID50: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2347 HE @ 1.91GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DM8-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB DDR2-266MHz, Disk: 500GB HGST HTS725050A7 + 6 x 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL004 HD20 + 2 x 32GB SanDisk SDSSDRC0 + 5 x 3001GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 + 300GB Maxtor 6L300S0, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 XFS-RAID50: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2347 HE @ 1.91GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DM8-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 4096 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB + 2048 MB DDR2-266MHz, Disk: 500GB HGST HTS725050A7 + 6 x 2000GB SAMSUNG HD204UI + 2 x 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL004 HD20 + 2 x 32GB SanDisk SDSSDRC0 + 5 x 3001GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 + 300GB Maxtor 6L300S0, Graphics: AMD ES1000 128MB OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 745.48 |================================================ XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 754.05 |================================================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 690.71 |============================================= Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 5591.56 |======================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 6793.91 |================================================ XFS-RAID50 .......... 5856.96 |========================================= SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 1261.76 |============================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 1958.12 |=============================================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 2001.10 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 17.57 |================================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 8.90 |========================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 9.43 |=========================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 32.01 |================================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 16.28 |========================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 17.16 |=========================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 31.00 |================================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 18.50 |============================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 17.53 |============================ Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 18.39 |================================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 14.93 |========================================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 14.57 |======================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 7.01 |======================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 9.03 |=================================================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 6.20 |=================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 1815.25 |============================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 1891.91 |================================================ XFS-RAID50 .......... 1830.96 |============================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 69.81 |=========================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 127.38 |================================================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 88.70 |================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 5524.29 |=============================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 5603.53 |================================================ XFS-RAID50 .......... 5379.23 |============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 3.20 |==================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 4.51 |=================================================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 3.58 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 530.86 |================================================ XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 546.44 |================================================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 415.22 |===================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 57.89 |================================= XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 88.94 |================================================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 85.86 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 231.27 |================================================= XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 232.72 |================================================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 232.70 |================================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 29.32 |================================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 26.78 |============================================= XFS-RAID50 .......... 29.52 |================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 1425 |=============================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 1556 |=================================================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 1415 |============================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 34.72 |================================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 34.82 |================================================== XFS-RAID50 .......... 34.75 |================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better FULL-XFS-LVM-RAID50 . 8359.28 |=============================================== XFS-LVM-RAID50 ...... 8487.69 |================================================ XFS-RAID50 .......... 8505.20 |================================================