S30-startup-time Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 testing with a LENOVO (A2KT70AUS BIOS) and NVIDIA Quadro K4000 3GB on Garuda Soaring via the Phoronix Test Suite. Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 @ 3.50GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: LENOVO (A2KT70AUS BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 + 240GB KINGSTON SA400S3, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K4000 3GB (810/2808MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC662 rev3, Monitor: G276HL, Network: Intel 82579LM + Intel 7265 OS: Garuda Soaring, Kernel: 5.10.7-zen1-1-zen (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.5, Display Server: X Server 1.20.10, Display Driver: NVIDIA 460.32.03, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Vulkan: 1.2.155, Compiler: GCC 10.2.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Application Start-up Time 3.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Only Sequential Reads - Application To Start: LibreOffice Writer - Disk Target: Default Test Directory sec < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 . 0.295 |========================================= Application Start-up Time 3.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Sequential Reads + Writes - Application To Start: LibreOffice Writer - Disk Target: Default Test Directory sec < Lower Is Better Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 . 8.79237 |=======================================