result Intel Xeon E5-2609 v2 testing with a GIGABYTE GA-6PXSV3 v00000001 and NVIDIA Quadro K600 1024MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2609 v2 @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-6PXSV3 v00000001, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K600 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-19-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 2046.53 |=========================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 519.38 |============================================ Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 491.07 |========================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 25.80 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 43.15 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 82.82 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 101.36 |============================================ Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 12.85 |============================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 6207.41 |=========================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 166.08 |============================================ IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 5968.93 |=========================================== IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 160.94 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 461.40 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 184.07 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 1350.82 |=========================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 12.26 |============================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 3731 |============================================== Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 3750 |============================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 13167.60 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 17320.46 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Integer Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 17282.28 |========================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Floating-Point Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 16042.55 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 20687.27 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 20314.50 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 22739.93 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 22479.00 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 20692.62 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 20314.50 |========================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 22479.00 |========================================== Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 17.04 |============================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 8069.97 |=========================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 18.55 |============================================= Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 18.47 |============================================= Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 8.96 |============================================== Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 9.01 |============================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 21.57 |============================================= Java SciMark 2.0 FFT Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 812.41 |============================================ Java SciMark 2.0 SOR Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 1054.57 |=========================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Composite Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 1280.81 |=========================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Monte Carlo Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 587.99 |============================================ Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 20.48 |============================================= Fhourstones 3.1 Complex Connect-4 Solving Kpos / sec > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 8452.77 |=========================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 18880885.07 |======================================= CacheBench Read Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 2111.98 |=========================================== CacheBench Write Cache MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 7556.68 |=========================================== SciMark 2.0 Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 846.41 |============================================ TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 716785 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 2582 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 6482000 |=========================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 2593 |============================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 44293 |============================================= x264 2015-11-02 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 85.77 |============================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 129 |=============================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 1072.19 |=========================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 10810 |============================================= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 52.75 |============================================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 103.12 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 249.15 |============================================ Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 86.31 |============================================= Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 49.34 |============================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 45.89 |============================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 13.50 |============================================= Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 13.40 |============================================= Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: 3000 Fall Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 7.68 |============================================== Bullet Physics Engine 2.81 Test: Convex Trimesh Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 2.18 |============================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 17.68 |============================================= Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 17.59 |============================================= LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 160.10 |============================================ Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 159.71 |============================================ Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 111.35 |============================================ Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 111.30 |============================================ dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 81.10 |============================================= Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 8.32 |============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 10.24 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 19.17 |============================================= Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 19.15 |============================================= Ogg Encoding 1.3.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 11.04 |============================================= FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 15.55 |============================================= Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 15.33 |============================================ Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 32.00 |============================================= Minion 0.15 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 123.71 |============================================ Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 23.58 |============================================= OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 330.43 |============================================ Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 330.33 |============================================ NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 16056.30 |========================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 13123.48 |========================================== Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 13084.84 |========================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 81859 |============================================= Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH1 . 5.39 |==============================================