buffalo-raid5 2 x Intel Xeon E5640 testing with a ASUS Z8NR-D12 (1302 BIOS) and ASPEED on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. onetime: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5640 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS Z8NR-D12 (1302 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz Kingston, Disk: 2999GB Vol1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: ASPEED, Network: 2 x Intel 82574L OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better onetime . 3850.91 |============================================================ IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 2MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better onetime . 3888.35 |============================================================ IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better onetime . 202.30 |============================================================= IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 2MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better onetime . 194.98 |============================================================= IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better onetime . 3891.69 |============================================================ IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better onetime . 137.92 |=============================================================