Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD Disk Ubuntu Linux 16.04
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD NVMe benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.


Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Intel 530 120GB SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160

Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test: 

	Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-K, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 840 + 2000GB Seagate ST32000641AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (324/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: openSUSE 13.2, Kernel: 4.6.0-1.gaf7ce24-default (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.9, Display Server: X Server 1.16.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 361.45.11, Compiler: GCC 4.8.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random 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
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ...... 37.60 |==============================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ......... 35.01 |============================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ............ 22.69 |==================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD .. 49.20 |=======================================
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test . 40.64 |================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random 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
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ...... 154.48 |================================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ......... 117.63 |========================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ............ 91.12  |===================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD .. 183.19 |======================================
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test . 164.87 |==================================


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
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ...... 203.59 |======================================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ......... 34.72  |======
Intel 530 120GB SSD ............ 35.69  |=======
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD .. 167.87 |===============================
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test . 182.04 |==================================


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
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ...... 157.24 |===========================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ......... 119.75 |=====================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ............ 102.11 |==================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD .. 217.61 |======================================
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test . 165.30 |=============================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ...... 158.37 |=======
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ......... 490.13 |======================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ............ 481.96 |======================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD .. 844.31 |======================================
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test . 134.90 |======


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ...... 846.90  |=====================
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ......... 1186.35 |=============================
Intel 530 120GB SSD ............ 1158.91 |============================
Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD .. 1511.54 |=====================================
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD test . 983.07  |========================