Comparatif Samsung vs Intel SSD (RAID 1) Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 testing with a Intel SandyBridge and Silicon Motion SM712 LynxEM+ on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel SandyBridge, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 256GB MR9266-4i, Graphics: Silicon Motion SM712 LynxEM+, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-40-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 1241.69 |========================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 34.19 |============================================ SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 7.37 |============================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 604.03 |=========================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 3229.37 |========================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 2527.17 |========================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 2422.50 |========================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 519.97 |=========================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 640.21 |=========================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 517.34 |=========================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 14819.62 |========================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 86.21 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 784.15 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 322.71 |=========================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 852.89 |=========================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 8.24 |============================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 5681 |============================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 11.85 |============================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 2 x 256GB Samsung SSD 840 . 35375.06 |=========================================