Here is some of the latest, umm, performance of a new node. Since DD seems to be popular around these parts,
Can we all agree that this DD is just amazing!! Look at these numbers!! They are Awesome! /sarcasm
[root@omg] /# dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=64k count=64k conv=fdatasync 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out 4294967296 bytes transferred in 1.004636 secs (4275148516 bytes/sec) [4.27GB/s]
[root@omg] /# dd of=/dev/null if=file bs=64k count=64k conv=fdatasync 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out 4294967296 bytes transferred in 1.000640 secs (4292220638 bytes/sec) [4.29GB/s]