iozone-read-write AMD Phenom II X4 965 testing with a Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ubuntu: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3, Chipset: AMD RX780/RX790, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: Targa Visiona + ry LCD 19-3, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-34-generic (i686), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.10, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ubuntu . 3335.91 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ubuntu . 225.81 |==============================================================