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: 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 INTEL SSDSC2BW24: Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97M-PLUS, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB INTEL SSDSC2BW24 + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00Y, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (1058/2700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.4, Display Server: X Server 1.18.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 361.42, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160413, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3600x1200 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 |====================================== INTEL SSDSC2BW24 .............. 1132.53 |============================ 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 |======================================= INTEL SSDSC2BW24 .............. 487.90 |======================= 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 |======================================= 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 |================================ 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 |======================================= 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 |========================================