baseline
Intel Core i7-3520M testing with a TOSHIBA TECRA R940 and AMD Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 1024MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Samsung SSD 840: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3520M @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: TOSHIBA TECRA R940, Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC269VC, Monitor: Internal LCD + S24C650, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235

	OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-14-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.1.0-devel (git-1fda56c 2015-10-08 wily-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151003 + Clang 3.6.2-1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3520x1200


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 . 85.57 |======================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 . 110.40 |=====================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 . 62.10 |======================================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Samsung SSD 840 . 1931.92 |====================================================