mother1 Intel Pentium G640 testing with a ASUS P8H61-M LE R2.0 and MSI AMD Radeon HD 5800 1024MB on Debian 7.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14: Processor: Intel Pentium G640 @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-M LE R2.0, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DDR3-1067MHz, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon HD 5800 1024MB (725/1000MHz), Audio: Fortemedia Xwave QS3000A, Monitor: 919, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Debian 7.8, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: fglrx 14.50.2, OpenGL: 4.4.13283, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 13.68 |============================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 1409 |============================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 214.10 |============================================ OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 4.6 MAX: 10.0 World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 204.27 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 74 |================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 1181.32 |=========================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 5230 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 95.02 |============================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 175.69 |============================================ FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 22.11 |============================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 180.20 |============================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1BD14 . 12006.24 |==========================================