If you increase innodb_buffer_pool_size higher, you can get better results but I intentionally set lower to do disk i/o intensive loads.2.2 Benchmarking results2.2.1 HDD vs SSD All files on HDD(two drives, RAID1): 3447.25All files on SSD(single drive) : 14842.44(The number is NOTPM, higher is better)I got 4.3 times better result on SSD. As Vadim, Matt, and other many people have already shown, jus