cp-disk-bench Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. smartarray-hw: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2000GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Monitor: PL2282H, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe OS: CentOS 7.2.1511, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 smartarray-hw-wcache: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2000GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Monitor: PL2282H, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe OS: CentOS 7.2.1511, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 hwraid-2x0-swraid: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Monitor: PL2282H OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better smartarray-hw ........ 8235.27 |=============================================== smartarray-hw-wcache . 8160.63 |=============================================== hwraid-2x0-swraid .... 8205.80 |=============================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better smartarray-hw ........ 5790.41 |=============================================== smartarray-hw-wcache . 5438.57 |============================================ hwraid-2x0-swraid .... 5695.06 |============================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better smartarray-hw ........ 190.69 |================================================ smartarray-hw-wcache . 190.75 |================================================ hwraid-2x0-swraid .... 190.90 |================================================ SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better smartarray-hw ........ 6.98 |================================================ smartarray-hw-wcache . 7.01 |================================================ hwraid-2x0-swraid .... 7.23 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better smartarray-hw ........ 13.19 |================================================= smartarray-hw-wcache . 13.23 |================================================= hwraid-2x0-swraid .... 13.30 |================================================= AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better smartarray-hw ........ 2288.34 |============================================= smartarray-hw-wcache . 2360.35 |=============================================== hwraid-2x0-swraid .... 2383.83 |===============================================