Disk test Testing result of seagate vs SM961 firsttime: Processor: Intel Core i7-6820HQ @ 3.60GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 086PC0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake /DRAM, Memory: 16384 MB + 4096 MB + 16384 MB + 4096 MB DDR4-2133MHz, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000LM044 HN-M, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 4096MB (1110/2505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC3235, Network: Intel Connection + Intel Wireless 8260 OS: LinuxMint 18, Kernel: 4.4.0-51-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 367.57, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttime . 6284.93 |========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better firsttime . 1002.27 |==========================================================