dom03-hdparm 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 testing with a IBM 00KG553 (-[D7E148BUS-1.91]- BIOS) and Matrox s G200eR2 on OracleServer 6.9 via the Phoronix Test Suite. dom30hdparm: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 @ 3.00GHz (24 Cores / 48 Threads), Motherboard: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 (P89 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16 x 32 GB DDR4-2400MHz 809083-091, Disk: 800GB LOGICAL VOLUME + 7681GB LOGICAL VOLUME, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200EH, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe OS: OracleServer 6.9, Kernel: 4.1.12-61.1.28.el6uek.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 dom01hdparm: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 3.60GHz (20 Cores / 40 Threads), Motherboard: IBM 00KG553 (-[D7E148BUS-1.91]- BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 18 x 16384 MB DDR3-1066MHz Hynix HMT42GR7BFR4A-PB, Disk: 239GB ServeRAID M5110 + 299GB ServeRAID M5110 + 4797GB ServeRAID M5110, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: OracleServer 6.9, Kernel: 4.1.12-61.1.28.el6uek.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda MB/s > Higher Is Better dom30hdparm . 1273.13 |======================================================== dom01hdparm . 311.18 |============== hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sdc MB/s > Higher Is Better dom30hdparm . 1328.91 |==================================================== dom01hdparm . 1425.33 |========================================================