cache-tests Intel Core i7-4790 testing with a Gigabyte Z97-HD3 and Intel Gen7 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. HDD, noraid, nocache: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-HD3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1866MHz Kingston, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0 + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 + 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Intel Gen7, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 3898.26 |=============================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 1548.34 |=============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 19.60 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 36.84 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 63.07 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 57.22 |================================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 10.85 |================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 5762.90 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 105.86 |================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 14382.32 |============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 0.37 |================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 736.12 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 350.87 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 933.48 |================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 7.26 |================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 5597 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 10.76 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better HDD, noraid, nocache . 34778.18 |==============================================