DiskBenchmarking Intel Core i5-4690 testing on Debian testing via the Phoronix Test Suite. SSD: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 6 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EFRX-68E, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: NEC LCD1560V, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.14-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Driver: intel 2.21.15, Compiler: GCC 4.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 6 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EFRX-68E, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: NEC LCD1560V, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.14-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Driver: intel 2.21.15, Compiler: GCC 4.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 bcache SSD+RAID6: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 6 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EFRX-68E, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: NEC LCD1560V, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.14-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Driver: intel 2.21.15, Compiler: GCC 4.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD ................ 10.59 |=================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 10.64 |=================================================== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 10.69 |=================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 52337.66 |============================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 54555.05 |================================================ bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 52039.56 |============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 477.68 |================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 226.64 |======================== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 339.72 |==================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 755.87 |================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 287.98 |=================== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 485.58 |================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 3443.21 |================================================= 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 3449.83 |================================================= bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 3447.24 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 492.39 |================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 169.61 |================= bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 260.90 |========================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 10998.91 |================================================ 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 9892.57 |=========================================== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 11055.31 |================================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 100.42 |================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 7.68 |==== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 49.41 |========================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 412.36 |================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 28.70 |=== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 295.73 |==================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 1143.60 |================================================= 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 55.28 |== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 713.28 |=============================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 1771.95 |================================================= 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 50.30 |= bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 899.45 |========================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 117.40 |================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 13.37 |====== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 39.15 |================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 16093.37 |============================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 16943.44 |================================================ bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 16421.05 |=============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 12.93 |=================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 0.33 |= bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 2.17 |========= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 7076 |==================================================== 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 6881 |=================================================== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 6759 |================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD ................ 3148.16 |================================================= 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 608.68 |========= bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 822.63 |============= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD ................ 7.55 |============================================= 6x2GB_WD_Red_Raid6 . 7.89 |=============================================== bcache SSD+RAID6 ... 8.72 |====================================================