strong-base Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 testing with a ASRock Z77 Extreme11 and Intel Gen7 on Ubuntu 13.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2gb: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme11, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/Ivy, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 1000GB External HDD + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 2 x 500GB Western Digital WD5000AACS-0 + 2 x 1500GB Western Digital WD15EARS-00Z, Graphics: Intel Gen7 (50MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, Display Driver: intel 2.99.904, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 9.2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2gb . 10163.83 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2gb . 9022.71 |================================================================ IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2gb . 328.19 |================================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2gb . 323.31 |================================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2gb . 10946.38 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2gb . 327.09 |=================================================================