initial Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 testing with a MSI P45 Neo-F (MS-7519) v1.0 and AMD Radeon HD 4830 512MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Maxtor 6Y080L0: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 @ 2.67GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: MSI P45 Neo-F (MS-7519) v1.0, Chipset: Intel 4 DRAM + ICH10, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 82GB Maxtor 6Y080L0 + 64GB M4-CT064M4SSD2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4830 512MB (575/900MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC888, Monitor: SMT27A300, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-37-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.2.2, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.3.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Maxtor 6Y080L0 . 257.63 |====================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Maxtor 6Y080L0 . 94.47 |======================================================= AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Maxtor 6Y080L0 . 127.20 |======================================================