Ubuntu Linux - SATA 3.0 SSD - AHCI vs. IDE

Benchmarking an OCZ Serial ATA 3.0 (SATA3) Solid-State Drive (SSD) on Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshot with the Linux 3.5 kernel when comparing the AHCI and IDE modes for the SATA drive as controlled from the BIOS/UEFI. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Ubuntu Linux - SATA 3.0 SSD - AHCI vs. IDE Benchmarking an OCZ Serial ATA 3.0 (SATA3) Solid-State Drive (SSD) on Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshot with the Linux 3.5 kernel when comparing the AHCI and IDE modes for the SATA drive as controlled from the BIOS/UEFI. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. IDE Mode: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-8592933) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AHCI Mode: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: AMD Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-030500-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 6.0.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.1.902 (1.12.2 RC 2), Display Driver: radeon 6.14.4, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel (git-8592933) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7 + LLVM 3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 45.71 |============== AHCI Mode . 194.42 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 46.40 |=============== AHCI Mode . 179.68 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 305.73 |====================================================== AHCI Mode . 333.96 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 235.75 |======================================================== AHCI Mode . 250.58 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 962.93 |========================================================= AHCI Mode . 988.07 |=========================================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 266.16 |======================================================= AHCI Mode . 284.30 |=========================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better IDE Mode .. 325.44 |=========================================================== AHCI Mode . 57.94 |=========== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 158.57 |======================================================= AHCI Mode . 169.50 |=========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 217.17 |======================================================= AHCI Mode . 230.93 |=========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 156.50 |====================================================== AHCI Mode . 171.00 |=========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 547.48 |======================================================= AHCI Mode . 583.68 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 215.10 |=================================================== AHCI Mode . 247.19 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 234.80 |======================================================= AHCI Mode . 253.29 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 213.52 |=================================================== AHCI Mode . 247.39 |=========================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better IDE Mode .. 7.89 |============================================================= AHCI Mode . 7.89 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 234.28 |======================================================= AHCI Mode . 253.36 |=========================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 1326449 |========================================================== AHCI Mode . 865810 |====================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better IDE Mode .. 2858.45 |===================================================== AHCI Mode . 3110.55 |==========================================================