alienwarem14r2 Running pts/fio-1.8.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. alienwarem14r220150703: Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Alienware 07MJ2Y, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 256GB PLEXTOR PX-256M5, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1150MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless OS: openSUSE 20150630, Kernel: 4.0.5-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.7, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Samsung SSD 840: Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Alienware 07MJ2Y, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 512GB Samsung SSD 840 + 256GB PLEXTOR PX-256M5, Graphics: Intel HD 4600 (1150MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless OS: openSUSE 20150630, Kernel: 4.0.5-3-desktop (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.16.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.7, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better alienwarem14r220150703 . 355.48 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 840 . 392.20 |=====================================================