raid5+reiser AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti on openSUSE 12.3 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0: Processor: AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0, Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz Kingston, Disk: 4 x 4001GB Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 + 750GB SAMSUNG HD753LJ, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer AL1716, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: openSUSE 12.3, Kernel: 3.7.10-1.36-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.6.3.1, Display Driver: modesetting 0.8.0, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: reiserfs, Screen Resolution: 640x480 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 867.55 |======================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 834.32 |======================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 18.87 |========================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 21.79 |========================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 2.56 |========================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 13.76 |========================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 3655.38 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 166.47 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 78.28 |========================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 21.65 |========================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 388.51 |======================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 645 |=========================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD4001FAEX-0 . 13.64 |=========================================