first-test Intel Core i5-4670K testing with a ASRock Z87 Pro3 and Intel Gen7 on Fedora 22 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung SSD 850: Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Pro3, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel Gen7 (1200MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection I217-V OS: Fedora 22, Kernel: 4.1.4-200.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.1.1 20150618, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 400.73 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 368.67 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 198.35 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 244.02 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 511.88 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 8435.60 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 195.18 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 189.59 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 186.11 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 196.32 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 192.48 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 508.90 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 7095.26 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 508.71 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 8289.97 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 6734.29 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 6552.17 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 349.73 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 426.27 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 4597.35 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 5395.64 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 7816.47 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 210.41 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 850 . 6303.58 |====================================================