bare 2 x Intel Xeon E5504 testing with a HP ProLiant DL360 G6 and AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB on Debian Linux 7.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. bare-sdisk: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 G6, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 147GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Debian Linux 7.6, Kernel: 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better bare-sdisk . 70.75 |=========================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better bare-sdisk . 22.77 |===========================================================