Storage Intel Core i7-4700MQ testing with a MSI MS-1758 and MSI NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2048MB on Ubuntu 15.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. MSI SATA2: Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI MS-1758, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CT12 + 1000GB HGST HTS721010A9, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2048MB (980/900MHz), Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit + Intel Wireless 7260 OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.14.13, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 352.63, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better MSI SATA2 . 177.13 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MSI SATA2 . 7824.86 |========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better MSI SATA2 . 232.63 |===========================================================