balanced Intel Core i5-3570 testing with a LENOVO ThinkCentre M4300T and MSI NVIDIA GeForce 605 512MB on RedHatEnterpriseEverything 7.0 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkCentre M4300T, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 605 512MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: L197 Wide, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: RedHatEnterpriseEverything 7.0, Kernel: 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131106, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO ThinkCentre M4300T, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce 605 512MB, Audio: Intel 6 /C200, Monitor: L197 Wide, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: RedHatEnterpriseEverything 7.0, Kernel: 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131106, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 7375.90 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 7905.14 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6876.06 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6872.98 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 7876.06 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6806.36 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6708.28 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6939.81 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6973.18 |============================ RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz RMR5030EB68F9W1600 . 6699.77 |============================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 256 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 14.04 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 28.08 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 48 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 41.01 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 33.81 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 26.61 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 16.89 |=============================================