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.

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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","OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD","Intel 530 120GB SSD","Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD","Samsung SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited" Processor,,Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores),AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0,Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 Chipset,,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,Intel Sky Lake,AMD RD890 bridge Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,120GB Samsung SSD 850,240GB OCZ VERTEX3 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 + 120GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB Samsung SSD 850 + Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB,128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21 Graphics,,Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB,MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz) Audio,,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC889 Monitor,,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q,DELL P2415Q, Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS,,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Ubuntu 16.04,Arch rolling Kernel,,4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.6.0-040600-generic (x86_64),4.5.4-1-ARCH (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,Unity 7.4.0,MATE 1.12.1 Display Server,,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3,X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver,,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,modesetting 1.18.3,NVIDIA 364.19 OpenGL,,4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.2 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4,4.5.0 Compiler,,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 5.3.1 20160413,GCC 6.1.1 20160501 + Clang 3.8.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,3840x2160,2560x1440 ,,"Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD","OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD","Intel 530 120GB SSD","Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 SSD","Samsung SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited" "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,846.90,1186.35,1158.91,1511.54,865.85 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,37.60,35.01,22.69,49.20,56.57 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,154.48,117.63,91.12,183.19,187.62 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,203.59,34.72,35.69,167.87,233.44 "Flexible IO Tester - Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s (MB/s)",HIB,157.24,119.75,102.11,217.61,190.42 "IOzone - Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance (MB/s)",HIB,158.37,490.13,481.96,844.31,970.72