a88xm-tio AMD A6-6420K APU testing with a ASUS A88XM-E and ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8470D 128MB on openSUSE 13.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST500DM002-1ER14: Processor: AMD A6-6420K APU @ 4.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88XM-E, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1866MHz, Disk: 500GB Seagate ST500DM002-1ER14, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 8470D 128MB (304MHz), Audio: AMD Trinity HDMI Audio, Monitor: V173, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: openSUSE 13.2, Kernel: 3.16.7-24-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.9, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1ER14 . 3551.44 |=========================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1ER14 . 0.32 |============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1ER14 . 2618.97 |=========================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST500DM002-1ER14 . 0.25 |==============================================