Samsung 950 PRO NVMe SSD Disk Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD NVMe benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel 530 120GB SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.3, OpenGL: 4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-K, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 4001GB Western Digital WD40EZRX-00S + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 2048MB (993/891MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 4.5.0-2-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.12.1, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.79, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160519, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 37.60 |============================= OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 35.01 |=========================== Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 22.69 |================= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 49.20 |====================================== Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD . 51.98 |======================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 154.48 |===================== OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 117.63 |================ Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 91.12 |============= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 183.19 |========================= Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD . 281.07 |======================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 203.59 |========================= OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 34.72 |==== Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 35.69 |==== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 167.87 |==================== Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD . 321.14 |======================================= Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 157.24 |====================== OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 119.75 |================= Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 102.11 |============== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 217.61 |============================== Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD . 279.61 |======================================= IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 158.37 |======= OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 490.13 |====================== Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 481.96 |====================== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 844.31 |====================================== Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD . 864.16 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD ..... 846.90 |=============== OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD ........ 1186.35 |===================== Intel 530 120GB SSD ........... 1158.91 |===================== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD . 1511.54 |=========================== Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 SSD . 2111.11 |======================================