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

ssd comparison: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-6560U @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 09JHRY, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 197GB, Graphics: Intel Skylake, Audio: Realtek ALC3246, Network: Intel Wireless 8260

	OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.6.0-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.2, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160501 + Clang 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3200x1800


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 |========================================
ssd comparison ................ 40.60 |=================================


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 |===============================
ssd comparison ................ 234.13 |=======================================


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 |=======================
ssd comparison ................ 283.85 |=======================================


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 |====================================
ssd comparison ................ 233.62 |=======================================


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 |=======================================
ssd comparison ................ 544.22 |=========================


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 |======================================