fulldisk 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 testing with a Supermicro H8DA3-2 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Adaptec RAID 5 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Adaptec RAID 0 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Adaptec RAID 10 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Software Raid 5 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Software Raid 0 ext4: Processor: 2 x AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro H8DA3-2, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP55, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 32GB SSDSA2SH032G1GN, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC883, Monitor: S22D300 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 12.0.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 926.86 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 924.24 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 898.34 |=============================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 . 883.89 |============================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 883.52 |============================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 4.68 |= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 4.71 |= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 5.03 |= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 325.83 |================================================ Software Raid 0 ext4 . 177.34 |========================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 360.27 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 348.83 |============================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 326.77 |============================================ Software Raid 5 ext4 . 21.23 |=== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 53.37 |======= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 1680.83 |============================================= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 1774.11 |=============================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 1737.29 |============================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 . 73.70 |== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 149.49 |==== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 1285.39 |======================================= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 1556.22 |=============================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 1532.13 |============================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 . 185.01 |====== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 374.58 |=========== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 1078.93 |====================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 1338.60 |=============================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 1278.23 |============================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 271.09 |========== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 639.67 |====================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 275.79 |============================================= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 290.97 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 281.16 |============================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 . 15.26 |=== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 31.02 |===== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 1338.55 |============================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 1368.30 |=============================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 1197.66 |========================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 1143.87 |======================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 . 1329.34 |============================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 587.06 |============================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 635.47 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 392.89 |============================== Software Raid 5 ext4 . 320.04 |======================== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 598.03 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 640.03 |============================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 668.10 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 626.60 |============================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 559.31 |======================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 626.28 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 164.28 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 165.68 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 164.36 |================================================ Software Raid 5 ext4 . 161.18 |=============================================== Software Raid 0 ext4 . 162.85 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 784.93 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 784.72 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 788.05 |================================================ Software Raid 5 ext4 . 781.93 |================================================ Software Raid 0 ext4 . 788.76 |================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 18.22 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 18.21 |================================================ Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 17.68 |=============================================== Software Raid 5 ext4 . 18.53 |================================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 . 17.77 |=============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 2118 |================================================== Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 2112 |================================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 2095 |================================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 2066 |================================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 . 2100 |================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 27.38 |================================================= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 27.34 |================================================= Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 27.27 |================================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 27.26 |================================================= Software Raid 0 ext4 . 27.33 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Adaptec RAID 5 ext4 .. 13598.97 |============================================= Adaptec RAID 0 ext4 .. 13764.73 |============================================== Adaptec RAID 10 ext4 . 13555.11 |============================================= Software Raid 5 ext4 . 13291.17 |============================================ Software Raid 0 ext4 . 13694.12 |==============================================