Intel Linux Solid-State SSD Testing Solid-state drive (SSD) Linux benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix using Ubuntu 14.10. 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 + 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX + 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 120GB Samsung SSD 840: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1 + 120GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 64GB OCZ SOLID 2: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1 + 64GB OCZ AGILITY, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 240GB OCZ VERTEX3: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1 + 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280 3072MB, Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.3.1, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 7.4.0, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.3.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600 INTEL SSDSC2CW24: Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme4, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB INTEL SSDSC2CW24 + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD10EURX-73F + 2 x 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB (1215/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.1.6-1-ARCH (x86_64), Display Driver: NVIDIA 355.11, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 52.93 |============================ 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 49.34 |========================== 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 87.89 |=============================================== 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 48.46 |========================== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 83.07 |============================================ INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 78.19 |========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 110.97 |============================ 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 183.64 |============================================== 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 156.08 |======================================= 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 104.11 |========================== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 156.99 |======================================= INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 147.49 |===================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 52.68 |================= 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 50.03 |================= 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 91.62 |============================== 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 44.65 |=============== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 78.13 |========================== INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 138.80 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Block Size: 16KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 111.31 |======================= 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 182.70 |===================================== 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 154.67 |================================ 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 100.37 |==================== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 171.88 |=================================== INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 225.80 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 39.13 |======= 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 89.43 |================ 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 56.83 |========== 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 57.20 |========== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 216.70 |======================================== INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 251.42 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 76.80 |========= 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 167.57 |==================== 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 59.33 |======= 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 84.13 |========== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 391.63 |============================================== INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 304.20 |==================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 39.57 |======== 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 88.87 |=================== 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 44.05 |========= 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 57.37 |============ 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 215.47 |============================================== INTEL SSDSC2CW24 ....... 167.90 |==================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 171.79 |=========================================== 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX . 184.68 |============================================== 120GB Samsung SSD 840 .. 143.54 |==================================== 64GB OCZ SOLID 2 ....... 96.66 |======================== 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 ...... 174.30 |===========================================