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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited: 

	Processor: AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte 990XA-UD3, Chipset: AMD RD890 bridge, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 4001GB Seagate ST4000DM000-1F21, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB (1113/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Arch rolling, Kernel: 4.5.4-1-ARCH (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.12.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 364.19, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 6.1.1 20160501 + Clang 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440


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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited . 56.57 |=============================


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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited . 187.62 |============================


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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited . 233.44 |============================


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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited . 190.42 |=========================


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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited . 970.72 |============================


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 SM951 256GB NVME pcie.v2 limited . 865.85  |===============