Hard Drives Intel Core i5-4690K testing with a ASUS Z97-E and Intel HD 4600 on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Crucial_CT250MX2: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-E, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE + 250GB Crucial_CT250MX2 + 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: FP222W, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1920 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-E, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE + 250GB Crucial_CT250MX2 + 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: FP222W, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1920 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14: Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-E, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE + 250GB Crucial_CT250MX2 + 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Monitor: FP222W, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1920 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 2505.53 |================================= 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 2373.76 |=============================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 1192.86 |================ SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 53.80 |=== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 4.11 | 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 553.96 |================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 189.10 |===================== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 303.50 |================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 17.50 |== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 569.31 |========== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 1914.09 |================================= 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 31.91 |= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 1462.91 |======================== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 1994.28 |================================= 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 51.51 |= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 1917.89 |================================= 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 1878.07 |================================ 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 50.56 |= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 95.81 |===== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 686.84 |================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 11.45 |= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 419.31 |=========================== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 530.28 |================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 50.17 |=== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 131.84 |========= 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 508.36 |================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 49.56 |=== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 302.45 |============ 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 825.26 |================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 223.09 |========= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 274.47 |======================== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 395.48 |================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 181.88 |================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 1352.52 |================================ 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 1384.58 |================================= 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 1138.06 |=========================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 7.32 |=================================== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 7.52 |==================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 7.45 |==================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 7076 |==================================== 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 6944 |=================================== 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 6881 |=================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 10.48 |================================= 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 10.32 |================================= 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 10.96 |=================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Crucial_CT250MX2 ................... 29644.92 |================================ 2 x 90GB OCZ REVODRIVE RAID0 MDMAD . 29803.08 |================================ 320GB Seagate ST320LT012-9WS14 ..... 29813.02 |================================