PC-BSD 10.0 vs. PC-BSD 9.2 vs. Ubuntu 13.10 Benchmarks

With the CompileBench disk benchmarks the performance between Ubuntu 13.10 and PC-BSD 9.2 were close while PC-BSD 10.0 was much faster... Too fast, in fact. The reported speeds were past where the Fujitsu HDD is capable of performing so it looks like there's some handling of ZFS in PC-BSD where not all operating may be writing to the disk as handled in previous releases or other changes with syncing to the disk or caching. It can deliver faster results but it's unsafe in the case of power outages or other issues if the disk is left in an awkward state.

Running PostMark did the best on Ubuntu 13.10 with the EXT4 file-system while PC-BSD 10.0 was faster than PC-BSD 9.2.