Disk Tests
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 testing on Gentoo/Linux via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Single HDD/ext4: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10SLL-F v1.02, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 32GB SATA SSD + 4 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0045

	OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.4.26-gentoo-test (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600

MDADM RAID 1 / ext4: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10SLL-F v1.02, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2 x 32GB SATA SSD + 4 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0045

	OS: Gentoo/Linux, Kernel: 4.4.26-gentoo-test (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 1870.21 |==============================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 3028.87 |================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 3.18 |=============================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 5.56 |===================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 12.14 |=============================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 21.27 |==================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 2.83 |===================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 2.76 |==================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 10.92 |==================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 10.62 |=================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 220.19 |=================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 174.24 |=======================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 220.16 |=================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 192.63 |===========================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 159.12 |============================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 178.04 |=================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 184.20 |==============================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 198.31 |=================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 17.30 |=========================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 21.20 |==================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 32.00 |=============================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 55.83 |==================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 14519.23 |==============================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 14711.55 |===============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 0.31 |===================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 0.17 |============================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 10096.17 |============================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 10830.06 |===============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 0.28 |===================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 0.18 |=================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Single HDD/ext4 ..... 8.56 |===================================================
MDADM RAID 1 / ext4 . 8.35 |==================================================