postbootsingle Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 testing with a Dell XPS M1530 and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. ssd: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Dell XPS M1530, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, Audio: SigmaTel STAC9228, Network: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast + Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-54-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.10.4, Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, OpenGL: 3.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4 (ecryptfs), Screen Resolution: 1280x800 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 36.08 |================================================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better ssd . 37.17 |================================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 52.10 |================================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 174.86 |================================================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 168.21 |================================================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 159.53 |================================================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 68.56 |================================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 125.18 |================================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 87.15 |================================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 366.57 |================================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 6.80 |=================================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 83.41 |================================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 41.55 |================================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better ssd . 90.87 |================================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better ssd . 18.81 |================================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better ssd . 375 |==================================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better ssd . 22.03 |================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better ssd . 6827.01 |================================================================