September 2016 HDD SSD Disk Test Intel Core i7 980X testing with a ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB on ManjaroLinux 16.08 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung 950 PRO 256GB: 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: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 OCZ Trion TR150 120GB: 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 TOSHIBA-TR150 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Corsair Force LX 256GB: 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: 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 PNY CS1211 120GB: 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: PNY CS1211 120GB + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 850 EVO 120GB: 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 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB: 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 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Hitachi HUA72302 2TB: 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: 2000GB Hitachi HUA72302 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB: 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: 500GB Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 + 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160920, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Pure10G_iscsi: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 @ 2.60GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 6 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1002FAEX-0 + 7516GB FlashArray + 107GB FlashArray OS: oVirt Node 4.0.3 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 OCZ-blk-mq: Processor: Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150 + 240GB SanDisk Ultra II + 1000GB Elements 10B8 + 60GB OCZ AGILITY3, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1890/3802MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Antergos Linux 16.9-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.7.5-1-ck (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: CUDA 7.5, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OCZ-bfq: Processor: Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150 + 240GB SanDisk Ultra II + 1000GB Elements 10B8 + 60GB OCZ AGILITY3, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (798/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Antergos Linux 16.9-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.7.5-1-ck (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: CUDA 7.5, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Samsung-BFQ: Processor: Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150 + 240GB SanDisk Ultra II + 1000GB Elements 10B8 + 60GB OCZ AGILITY3, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (786/810MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Antergos Linux 16.9-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.7.4-2-ck (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: + CUDA 7.5, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Samsung-blk-mq: Processor: Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150 + 240GB SanDisk Ultra II + 1000GB Elements 10B8 + 60GB OCZ AGILITY3, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (951/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: Antergos Linux 16.9-ISO-Rolling, Kernel: 4.7.5-1-ck (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: + CUDA 7.5, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 OCZ-bfq-xfs: Processor: Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM, Chipset: Intel 5520/5500/X58 + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 240GB TOSHIBA-TR150 + 1000GB Elements 10B8 + 240GB SanDisk Ultra II + 60GB OCZ AGILITY3, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1518/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit OS: ManjaroLinux 16.08, Kernel: 4.4.21-1-MANJARO (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.20.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 6.2.1 20160830, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 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 950 PRO 256GB ..... 50.27 |============================================ Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB . 35.83 |=============================== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB ..... 30.34 |=========================== Corsair Force LX 256GB .... 28.65 |========================= PNY CS1211 120GB .......... 28.01 |========================= Samsung 850 EVO 120GB ..... 35.76 |=============================== Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB .... 23.15 |==================== Pure10G_iscsi ............. 14.84 |============= OCZ-blk-mq ................ 17.55 |=============== OCZ-bfq ................... 16.10 |============== Samsung-BFQ ............... 23.24 |==================== Samsung-blk-mq ............ 19.52 |================= OCZ-bfq-xfs ............... 22.09 |=================== 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 950 PRO 256GB .............. 226.49 |================================== Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB .......... 205.97 |=============================== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB .............. 132.36 |==================== Corsair Force LX 256GB ............. 146.87 |====================== PNY CS1211 120GB ................... 135.25 |==================== Samsung 850 EVO 120GB .............. 163.10 |======================== Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB ............. 95.65 |============== Hitachi HUA72302 2TB ............... 1.29 | Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB . 1.06 | Pure10G_iscsi ...................... 12.56 |== OCZ-blk-mq ......................... 50.99 |======== OCZ-bfq ............................ 57.96 |========= Samsung-BFQ ........................ 39.27 |====== Samsung-blk-mq ..................... 38.88 |====== OCZ-bfq-xfs ........................ 59.47 |========= 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 950 PRO 256GB .............. 241.37 |================================== Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB .......... 218.38 |=============================== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB .............. 136.97 |=================== Corsair Force LX 256GB ............. 151.39 |===================== PNY CS1211 120GB ................... 58.28 |======== Samsung 850 EVO 120GB .............. 160.74 |======================= Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB ............. 110.22 |================ Hitachi HUA72302 2TB ............... 34.79 |===== Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB . 33.67 |===== Pure10G_iscsi ...................... 20.17 |=== OCZ-blk-mq ......................... 68.90 |========== OCZ-bfq ............................ 85.24 |============ Samsung-BFQ ........................ 37.55 |===== Samsung-blk-mq ..................... 52.02 |======= OCZ-bfq-xfs ........................ 82.14 |============ SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB .......... 27.08 |== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB .............. 38.35 |== Corsair Force LX 256GB ............. 61.14 |==== PNY CS1211 120GB ................... 57.42 |=== Samsung 850 EVO 120GB .............. 29.55 |== Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB ............. 328.41 |==================== Hitachi HUA72302 2TB ............... 487.97 |============================= Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB . 565.51 |================================== Pure10G_iscsi ...................... 14.25 |= OCZ-blk-mq ......................... 60.55 |==== OCZ-bfq ............................ 59.79 |==== Samsung-BFQ ........................ 382.72 |======================= Samsung-blk-mq ..................... 275.83 |================= OCZ-bfq-xfs ........................ 53.22 |=== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 950 PRO 256GB .............. 120.67 |============= Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB .......... 210.70 |======================== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB .............. 64.32 |======= Corsair Force LX 256GB ............. 88.93 |========== PNY CS1211 120GB ................... 92.67 |========== Samsung 850 EVO 120GB .............. 103.70 |============ Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB ............. 38.57 |==== Hitachi HUA72302 2TB ............... 21.03 |== Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB . 18.70 |== Pure10G_iscsi ...................... 304.70 |================================== OCZ-blk-mq ......................... 94.20 |=========== OCZ-bfq ............................ 91.15 |========== Samsung-BFQ ........................ 136.18 |=============== Samsung-blk-mq ..................... 258.23 |============================= OCZ-bfq-xfs ........................ 73.72 |======== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 950 PRO 256GB .............. 310.07 |================= Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB .......... 95.52 |===== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB .............. 51.47 |=== Corsair Force LX 256GB ............. 186.00 |========== PNY CS1211 120GB ................... 193.20 |=========== Samsung 850 EVO 120GB .............. 112.00 |====== Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB ............. 124.13 |======= Hitachi HUA72302 2TB ............... 46.27 |=== Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB . 47.33 |=== Pure10G_iscsi ...................... 611.07 |================================== OCZ-blk-mq ......................... 59.63 |=== OCZ-bfq ............................ 59.08 |=== Samsung-BFQ ........................ 263.13 |=============== Samsung-blk-mq ..................... 367.27 |==================== OCZ-bfq-xfs ........................ 75.67 |==== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 950 PRO 256GB .............. 2790.05 |================================= Intel SSDPEKKW256G7 256GB .......... 2269.26 |=========================== OCZ Trion TR150 120GB .............. 1261.40 |=============== Corsair Force LX 256GB ............. 2696.65 |================================ PNY CS1211 120GB ................... 2643.12 |=============================== Samsung 850 EVO 120GB .............. 1880.30 |====================== Intel SSDSC2BW12 120GB ............. 1026.59 |============ Hitachi HUA72302 2TB ............... 118.36 |= Western Digital WD5000AAKX-0 500GB . 76.11 |= Samsung-BFQ ........................ 274.29 |=== Samsung-blk-mq ..................... 598.96 |======= OCZ-bfq-xfs ........................ 1423.28 |=================