HD vs SSD 2 AMD Phenom 8650 Triple-Core testing with a ASRock N68-S UCC and AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. SSD: Processor: AMD Phenom 8650 Triple-Core @ 2.31GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock N68-S UCC, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 1500GB SAMSUNG HD154UI + 120GB SanDisk SDSSDX12, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: VIA VT1705, Monitor: VX32L HDTV10A, Network: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 HD: Processor: AMD Phenom 8650 Triple-Core @ 2.31GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock N68-S UCC, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 1500GB SAMSUNG HD154UI + 120GB SanDisk SDSSDX12, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 4650 512MB, Audio: VIA VT1705, Monitor: VX32L HDTV10A, Network: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.1.99, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 75.43 |================================================================== HD .. 21.47 |=================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 2195.19 |================================================================ HD .. 2107.84 |============================================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD . 100.74 |================================================================= HD .. 92.39 |============================================================