dozer AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core testing with a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 and ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 840: Processor: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 840 + 500GB Hitachi HDS72105 + 3 x 3001GB Seagate ST3000DM001-1CH1, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (x86_64), File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 840 . 2205.17 |==================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.9 Test: Example Network Job Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 840 . 64.64 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.9 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 840 . 177.39 |=====================================================