fstest Intel Core i7-5820K testing with a MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Ubuntu 14.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. fstest1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZHPU256, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (540/3505MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-25-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better fstest1 . 151.90 |============================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better fstest1 . 247.20 |============================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better fstest1 . 151.57 |============================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better fstest1 . 1970.55 |============================================================