September 2016 HDD SSD Disk Test NVME SSD comparison on Ryzen 5 1600 / 4.14 Kernel 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 nvme_950_evo: Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte AX370-Gaming 5, Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 250GB, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon 2048MB, Audio: AMD Device aae0, Monitor: S24E390, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.14.0-041400-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Server: Wayland, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0.0), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 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 |==================== nvme_950_evo .............. 46.69 |========================================= 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 | nvme_950_evo ....................... 256.74 |================================== 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 |===== nvme_950_evo ....................... 251.24 |================================== 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 |================================== nvme_950_evo ....................... 37.02 |== 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 |=== nvme_950_evo ....................... 202.27 |================================= 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 |===== nvme_950_evo ....................... 180.00 |==================== 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 |= nvme_950_evo ....................... 3100.77 |=================================