Disk Tests Linux 4.14 Xeon Tyan Server Linux disk benchmarks for a future article on Phoronix. Samsung SSD 850: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 ST2000DM006-2DM1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 TOSHIBA-TR150: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 BCache Writethrough Default: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 BCache Writeback: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 BCache Writearound: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MHz Micron, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian 9.1, Kernel: 4.14.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170918, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.22.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Kingston DataTraveler 3.0: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.90GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 320GB Western Digital WD3200BEVT-7 + 320GB TOSHIBA MK3263GS + 250GB Hitachi HTS54322, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (696/810MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.3-041303-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.90, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 950 Pro nvme0: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.90GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 320GB Western Digital WD3200BEVT-7 + 320GB TOSHIBA MK3263GS + 250GB Hitachi HTS54322, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1177/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.4-041304-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 950 Pro nvme1: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.90GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 320GB Western Digital WD3200BEVT-7 + 320GB TOSHIBA MK3263GS + 250GB Hitachi HTS54322, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.4-041304-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 2 x 950 Pro RAID0: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.90GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 320GB Western Digital WD3200BEVT-7 + 320GB TOSHIBA MK3263GS + 250GB Hitachi HTS54322, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (135/324MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.4-041304-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 381.22, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs: Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K @ 3.90GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 3 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS + 320GB Western Digital WD3200BEVT-7 + 320GB TOSHIBA MK3263GS + 250GB Hitachi HTS54322, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB (1177/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom Limited BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.90, OpenGL: 4.5.0, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 41.47 |== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 747.05 |================================= TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 39.54 |== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 39.85 |== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 463.94 |===================== BCache Writethrough Default . 915.21 |========================================= BCache Writeback ............ 262.03 |============ BCache Writearound .......... 863.39 |======================================= Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 ... 138.34 |====== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 59.67 |=== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 62.06 |=== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 63.47 |=== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 152.37 |======= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 389.19 | ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 1.55 | TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 212.51 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 415.63 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 491.70 | BCache Writethrough Default . 1.31 | BCache Writeback ............ 1.22 | BCache Writearound .......... 1.36 | Samsung SSD 850 ............. 97295.00 |============================== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 385.00 | TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 53123.00 |================ 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 103905.00 |================================ 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 122922.00 |====================================== BCache Writethrough Default . 325.00 | BCache Writeback ............ 302.00 | BCache Writearound .......... 337.00 | Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 343.85 | ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 1.11 | TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 288.89 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 577.92 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 297.77 | BCache Writethrough Default . 1.04 | BCache Writeback ............ 23.45 | BCache Writearound .......... 1.06 | Samsung SSD 850 ............. 85958.00 |======================= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 257.00 | TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 72220.00 |=================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 144475.00 |====================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 74438.00 |==================== BCache Writethrough Default . 234.00 | BCache Writeback ............ 5858.00 |== BCache Writearound .......... 243.00 | Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 452.71 | ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 190.36 | TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 223.62 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 485.10 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 220.19 | BCache Writethrough Default . 125.07 | BCache Writeback ............ 102.24 | BCache Writearound .......... 101.41 | Samsung SSD 850 ............. 113175.00 |=================================== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 47586.00 |=============== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 55902.00 |================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 121272.00 |====================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 55043.00 |================= BCache Writethrough Default . 31262.00 |========== BCache Writeback ............ 25556.00 |======== BCache Writearound .......... 25348.00 |======== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 413.30 | ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 185.69 | TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 423.25 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 673.76 | 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 390.02 | BCache Writethrough Default . 120.07 | BCache Writeback ............ 79.16 | BCache Writearound .......... 100.93 | Samsung SSD 850 ............. 103322.00 |======================= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 46419.00 |========== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 105809.00 |======================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 168435.00 |====================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 97501.00 |====================== BCache Writethrough Default . 30015.00 |======= BCache Writeback ............ 19785.00 |==== BCache Writearound .......... 25230.00 |====== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 158.52 |========================================= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 19.73 |===== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 64.33 |================= 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 91.38 |======================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 47.15 |============ BCache Writethrough Default . 16.47 |==== BCache Writeback ............ 12.58 |=== BCache Writearound .......... 14.37 |==== Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 ... 15.00 |==== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 140.10 |==================================== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 138.63 |==================================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 119.97 |=============================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 141.87 |===================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 307.47 |===================================== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 52.93 |====== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 51.73 |====== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 73.73 |========= 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 32.53 |==== BCache Writethrough Default . 42.40 |===== BCache Writeback ............ 40.47 |===== BCache Writearound .......... 37.47 |===== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 336.53 |======================================== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 341.15 |========================================= 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 300.73 |==================================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 173.27 |===================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 161.37 |========================================= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 20.80 |===== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 43.68 |=========== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 65.57 |================= 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 25.73 |======= BCache Writethrough Default . 16.27 |==== BCache Writeback ............ 16.77 |==== BCache Writearound .......... 16.10 |==== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 137.60 |=================================== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 133.73 |================================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 122.50 |=============================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 128.67 |================================= BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 1990437 |========================= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 2273247 |============================ TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 2004320 |========================= 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 1793947 |====================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 1899913 |======================= BCache Writethrough Default . 2330799 |============================= BCache Writearound .......... 2361583 |============================= 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 675689 |======== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 759299 |========= 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 862029 |=========== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 3237630 |======================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 25925 |========================================== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 6375 |========== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 10049 |================ 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 12090 |==================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 13818 |====================== BCache Writethrough Default . 6422 |========== BCache Writearound .......... 6399 |========== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 406.65 |======================================= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 22.26 |== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 365.14 |=================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 430.51 |========================================= 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 318.27 |============================== BCache Writethrough Default . 16.23 |== BCache Writeback ............ 51.16 |===== BCache Writearound .......... 18.19 |== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 248.80 |======================== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 245.73 |======================= 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 255.47 |======================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 229.83 |====================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 362.71 |======= ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 159.17 |=== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 95.33 |== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 156.14 |=== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 50.56 |= BCache Writethrough Default . 102.53 |== BCache Writeback ............ 183.32 |=== BCache Writearound .......... 96.09 |== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 1248.65 |======================= 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 1231.50 |====================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 2132.86 |======================================= 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 2209.76 |======================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 504.53 |===================================== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 526.46 |====================================== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 535.25 |======================================= 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 554.82 |======================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 566.02 |========================================= BCache Writethrough Default . 527.19 |====================================== BCache Writeback ............ 515.94 |===================================== BCache Writearound .......... 512.47 |===================================== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 451.02 |================================= 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 461.99 |================================= 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 476.06 |================================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 274.44 |==================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 ............. 5597 |==================================== ST2000DM006-2DM1 ............ 5436 |=================================== TOSHIBA-TR150 ............... 5815 |===================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID0 ..... 5866 |===================================== 2 x TOSHIBA-TR150 RAID1 ..... 5683 |==================================== BCache Writethrough Default . 5557 |=================================== BCache Writeback ............ 5769 |===================================== BCache Writearound .......... 5597 |==================================== 950 Pro nvme0 ............... 6578 |========================================== 950 Pro nvme1 ............... 6756 |=========================================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 ........... 6756 |=========================================== 2 x 950 Pro RAID0 btrfs ..... 6522 |==========================================