DiskBenchmarking Intel Core i5-4690 testing on Debian testing via the Phoronix Test Suite. SSD: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H-BK, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 6 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EFRX-68E, Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Monitor: NEC LCD1560V, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 3.14-1-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.8.4, Display Driver: intel 2.21.15, Compiler: GCC 4.9, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD . 10.59 |================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better SSD . 52337.66 |=============================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 477.68 |================================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 755.87 |================================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 3443.21 |================================================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 492.39 |================================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 10998.91 |=============================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 100.42 |================================================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 412.36 |================================================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 1143.60 |================================================================ Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 1771.95 |================================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 117.40 |================================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 16093.37 |=============================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 12.93 |================================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better SSD . 7076 |=================================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 3148.16 |================================================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better SSD . 7.55 |===================================================================