fionew AMD Phenom II X4 970 testing with a Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 (F13 BIOS) and XFX AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB on Fedora 28 via the Phoronix Test Suite. fionew: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 970 @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 (F13 BIOS), Chipset: AMD RD9x0/RX980, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 750GB Western Digital WD7501AALS-0 + 750GB Western Digital WD7500AACS-0 + 240GB SanDisk SSD PLUS, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: PanasonicTV0, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 28, Kernel: 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.1 (LLVM 6.0.0), Compiler: GCC 8.0.1 20180324, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 251 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 252 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 2305 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 224 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 2290 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 226 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 318 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 329 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 254 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 255 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 2596 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 213 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 2581 |================================================================ Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 217 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 297 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fionew . 297 |=================================================================