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 @ 3.10GHz (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: 4.9.6-gentoo-r1-test (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Single HDD ext4 . 71.30 |====================================================== 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 . 390.02 |===================================================== 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 . 78.34 |====================================================== 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 . 234.71 |===================================================== 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 . 97.21 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Single HDD ext4 . 272.48 |===================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Single HDD ext4 . 149.33 |===================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better Single HDD ext4 . 5116 |======================================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Single HDD ext4 . 936.21 |=====================================================