pre_SSD_tweek Intel Core i7-3520M testing with a LENOVO 2356EK6 and Intel Ivy Bridge on LinuxMint 13 via the Phoronix Test Suite. INTEL SSDSC2BW18: Processor: Intel Core i7-3520M @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 2356EK6, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 180GB INTEL SSDSC2BW18, Graphics: Intel Ivy Bridge, Audio: Realtek ALC269VC, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: LinuxMint 13, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: Cinnamon 1.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 256MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BW18 . 291.08 |====================================================