diskperformance Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 testing with a HP 1589 (J61 v03.69 BIOS) and NVIDIA Quadro K600 1024MB on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. IO Samsung 950 Pro: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 @ 3.90GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: HP 1589 (J61 v03.69 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 4001GB Hitachi HUS72404 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB, Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro K600 1024MB (875/891MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC262, Monitor: DELL U2715H, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-39-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.111, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IO Samsung 950 Pro . 773.25 |==================================================