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 nojbod 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, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 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 |====================================== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 610.28 |===================================== 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 |======================================== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 18.27 |========================================= 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 |======================================== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 164.62 |========================================= 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 |========================================= nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 788.36 |========================================= 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 |=== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 676.85 |=============== 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 |========== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 799.73 |===================== 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 |=================== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 741.85 |====================== 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 |==== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 207.98 |============================= 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 |====== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 69.53 |======== 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 |======================================= nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 1187.95 |=================================== 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 |======================================= nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 360.98 |======================= 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 |=========================================== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 2083 |========================================== 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 |======================================= nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 13413.28 |====================================== 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 |========= nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 814.49 |========================================= 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 |========================================== nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 27.22 |========================================== 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 |======================================= nojbod Software Raid 5 ext4 . 832.84 |=====================================