Transcend SATA 3.0 256GB SSD Linux Tests
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB


240GB OCZ VERTEX3: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 64GB ADATA SP600, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

64GB ADATA SP600: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 64GB ADATA SP600, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

120GB OCZ TRION100: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

120GB SPCC Solid State: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB SPCC Solid State, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

256GB TS256GSSD370S: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600

samsungevo850: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-3230M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: SAMSUNG NP670Z5E-XD1BR, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269VC, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235

	OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 3.14.49-1-lts (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.3, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.6.2 + LLVM 3.6.2, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1366x768

OCZ ARC100: 

	Processor: Intel Core i3-5010U @ 2.10GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel NUC5i3RYB, Chipset: Intel Broadwell-U-OPI, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ ARC100 + 16GB Cruzer Fit, Graphics: Intel Broadwell-U (900MHz), Audio: Intel Broadwell-U Audio, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 7265

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.19.0-26-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.6.1, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1360x768


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 58.67  |===================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 55.11  |==================
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 139.64 |==============================================
120GB SPCC Solid State . 132.05 |===========================================
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 119.06 |=======================================
samsungevo850 .......... 93.16  |===============================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 95.94  |=========================================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 92.80  |=======================================
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 71.30  |==============================
120GB SPCC Solid State . 98.23  |==========================================
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 108.48 |==============================================
samsungevo850 .......... 91.56  |=======================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 212.40 |================================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 71.30  |===========
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 48.37  |=======
120GB SPCC Solid State . 84.63  |=============
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 86.90  |=============
samsungevo850 .......... 305.30 |==============================================
OCZ ARC100 ............. 78.67  |============


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads
Files/s > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 366.40 |==============================================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 71.50  |=========
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 62.80  |========
120GB SPCC Solid State . 127.87 |================
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 179.33 |=======================
samsungevo850 .......... 285.73 |====================================
OCZ ARC100 ............. 90.60  |===========


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 210.80 |==============================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 10.17  |=
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 48.30  |=======
120GB SPCC Solid State . 82.87  |============
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 86.87  |============
samsungevo850 .......... 323.40 |==============================================
OCZ ARC100 ............. 59.05  |========


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Initial Create
MB/s > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 313.96 |==============================================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 253.47 |=====================================
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 261.26 |======================================
120GB SPCC Solid State . 285.60 |==========================================
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 307.07 |=============================================
OCZ ARC100 ............. 208.38 |===============================


PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3
Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write
TPS > Higher Is Better
240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 6081.54 |=============================================
64GB ADATA SP600 ....... 1652.56 |============
120GB OCZ TRION100 ..... 1443.84 |===========
120GB SPCC Solid State . 1741.31 |=============
256GB TS256GSSD370S .... 3268.09 |========================
samsungevo850 .......... 717.76  |=====
OCZ ARC100 ............. 733.03  |=====