Disk Testing Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0 XFS, Btrfs, EXT4 benchmarks on a Western Digital Black 1TB HDD. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Btrfs: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 EXT4: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 XFS: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD1003FZEX-0, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Btrfs . 642.79 |=============================================================== EXT4 .. 288.28 |============================ XFS ... 404.11 |======================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 49.23 |================================================================ EXT4 .. 1.93 |=== XFS ... 2.05 |=== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 28.01 |===================== EXT4 .. 76.64 |========================================================= XFS ... 86.37 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 25.27 |============================================== EXT4 .. 13.12 |======================== XFS ... 35.32 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 34.55 |================================================ EXT4 .. 25.20 |=================================== XFS ... 46.33 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 22.45 |================================================================ EXT4 .. 16.37 |=============================================== XFS ... 20.40 |========================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 58.45 |========================================================== EXT4 .. 50.17 |================================================== XFS ... 64.30 |================================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 687.06 |=============================================================== EXT4 .. 591.00 |====================================================== XFS ... 475.17 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Btrfs . 156.83 |================================== EXT4 .. 291.65 |=============================================================== XFS ... 268.89 |==========================================================