mydisks Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 testing with a ASRock H87 Pro4 and Intel Haswell IGP on LinuxMint 15 via the Phoronix Test Suite. miraculix-mydisks: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock H87 Pro4, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1 + 250GB 2105, Graphics: Intel Haswell IGP (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HD Audio, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: LinuxMint 15, Kernel: 3.8.0-35-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.8.8, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: intel 2.21.6, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.1.7, Compiler: GCC 4.7.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sdc1 MB/s > Higher Is Better miraculix-mydisks . 168.32 |===================================================