tiob 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 testing with a IBM 49Y6498 and Matrox s MGA G200EV on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. tiob: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.79GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: IBM 49Y6498, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10, Memory: 12 x 4096 MB 1067MHz, Disk: 438GB ServeRAID M5015 + 1000GB My Passport 0730, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EV, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-34-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiob . 3968.33 |=============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiob . 4.15 |================================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiob . 3528.13 |=============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tiob . 8.95 |==================================================================