Startup Timing Intel Core i7-7900X testing with a MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB on Ubuntu 17.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Force MP500: Processor: Intel Core i7-7900X @ 4.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 4 x 4096 MB DDR4-3000MHz, Disk: 240GB Force MP500, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170807, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.14, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Sequential - Background I/O mix: Reads and writes - Application to start: xterm sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 1.04 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Random - Background I/O mix: Only reads - Application to start: LibreOffice Writer sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 0.25 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Sequential - Background I/O mix: Only reads - Application to start: Gnome terminal sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 0.61 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Random - Background I/O mix: Reads and writes - Application to start: Gnome terminal sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 1.35 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Sequential - Background I/O mix: Only reads - Application to start: LibreOffice Writer sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 0.95 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Random - Background I/O mix: Reads and writes - Application to start: LibreOffice Writer sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 2.22 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Sequential - Background I/O mix: Reads and writes - Application to start: Gnome terminal sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 4.58 |=========================================================== Application Start-up Time 0.1.0 Background I/O Type: Sequential - Background I/O mix: Reads and writes - Application to start: LibreOffice Writer sec < Lower Is Better Force MP500 . 6.54 |===========================================================