Solid State SSD Ubuntu Linux Tests SSD Linux benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. 64GB ADATA SP600: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 64GB ADATA SP600, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB OCZ TRION100: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB OCZ TRION100, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB SPCC Solid State: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB SPCC Solid State, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 256GB TS256GSSD370S: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB PNY CS1211: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + PNY CS1211 120GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB CT120BX100SSD1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB CT120BX100SSD1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #2: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150709, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.7.0-devel (git-d9ab95b 2015-07-06 vivid-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 Intel Core i7-6700HQ - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-14A3, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake /DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 2050GB Crucial_CT2050MX, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6144MB (860/2999MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC898, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.8 (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 378.13, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 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 64GB ADATA SP600 ......... 55.11 |================= 120GB OCZ TRION100 ....... 139.64 |============================================ 120GB SPCC Solid State ... 132.05 |========================================== 256GB TS256GSSD370S ...... 119.06 |====================================== 120GB PNY CS1211 ......... 22.49 |======= 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ..... 118.49 |===================================== 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 . 129.16 |========================================= 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ... 55.30 |================= 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 64GB ADATA SP600 ......... 92.80 |==================================== 120GB OCZ TRION100 ....... 71.30 |=========================== 120GB SPCC Solid State ... 98.23 |====================================== 256GB TS256GSSD370S ...... 108.48 |========================================== 120GB PNY CS1211 ......... 46.83 |================== 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ..... 100.18 |====================================== 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 . 114.59 |============================================ 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ... 84.17 |================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better 64GB ADATA SP600 ................................... 71.30 |======= 120GB OCZ TRION100 ................................. 48.37 |==== 120GB SPCC Solid State ............................. 84.63 |======== 256GB TS256GSSD370S ................................ 86.90 |======== 120GB PNY CS1211 ................................... 91.50 |========= 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ............................... 93.17 |========= 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 ........................... 102.82 |========== 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ............................. 71.30 |======= Intel Core i7-6700HQ - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 . 193.67 |================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better 64GB ADATA SP600 ................................... 71.50 |=== 120GB OCZ TRION100 ................................. 62.80 |== 120GB SPCC Solid State ............................. 127.87 |===== 256GB TS256GSSD370S ................................ 179.33 |======= 120GB PNY CS1211 ................................... 189.33 |======= 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ............................... 142.40 |====== 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 ........................... 104.40 |==== 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ............................. 189.87 |======= Intel Core i7-6700HQ - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 . 455.93 |================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better 64GB ADATA SP600 ................................... 10.17 |= 120GB OCZ TRION100 ................................. 48.30 |===== 120GB SPCC Solid State ............................. 82.87 |======== 256GB TS256GSSD370S ................................ 86.87 |======== 120GB PNY CS1211 ................................... 91.47 |========= 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ............................... 93.17 |========= 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 ........................... 66.92 |====== 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ............................. 71.37 |======= Intel Core i7-6700HQ - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 . 187.57 |================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better 64GB ADATA SP600 ................................... 253.47 |=========== 120GB OCZ TRION100 ................................. 261.26 |============ 120GB SPCC Solid State ............................. 285.60 |============= 256GB TS256GSSD370S ................................ 307.07 |============== 120GB PNY CS1211 ................................... 313.19 |============== 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ............................... 302.45 |============= 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 ........................... 285.67 |============= 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ............................. 302.59 |============= Intel Core i7-6700HQ - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 . 404.85 |================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better 64GB ADATA SP600 ................................... 1652.56 |======== 120GB OCZ TRION100 ................................. 1443.84 |======= 120GB SPCC Solid State ............................. 1741.31 |========= 256GB TS256GSSD370S ................................ 3268.09 |================ 120GB PNY CS1211 ................................... 3389.00 |================= 120GB CT120BX100SSD1 ............................... 2875.81 |============== 120GB Samsung SSD 850 #1 ........................... 1723.37 |========= 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 ............................. 2766.30 |============== Intel Core i7-6700HQ - MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 . 2127.09 |===========