Corsair MP500 FORCE NVMe Linux SSD Benchmarks SSD Linux testing by Michael Larabel for a future article. The MP500 FORCE NVMe PCIe SSD compared to a few other SSDs I had available. Corsair Force MP500 240GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB Force MP500, Graphics: Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170613, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Crucial MX500 525GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 525GB Crucial_CT525MX3 + 240GB Force MP500, Graphics: Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170613, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 950 PRO 256GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, Graphics: Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170613, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Intel Optane 16GB: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Device 591f + Z270, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 14GB INTEL MEMPEK1W016GA, Graphics: Intel HD 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.12.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170613, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 960 Evo 500GB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core @ 3.65GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X370-PRO, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 840 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EACS-00Z + 500GB SAMSUNG HD501LJ + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 285/380 4096MB, Audio: AMD Tonga HDMI Audio, Monitor: PHL BDM3270, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: neon 16.04, Kernel: 4.11.4-041104-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.2.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 5.0.0), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 pocl 0.15-pre LLVM 5.0.0, Vulkan: 1.0.3, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 5.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 18.24 |============ Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 30.02 |==================== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 65.67 |============================================ Intel Optane 16GB ......... 4.25 |=== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 50.03 |================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 820.09 |======================================= Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 362.75 |================= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 776.72 |===================================== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 895.97 |=========================================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 650.65 |=============================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 205018 |======================================= Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 90684 |================= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 194176 |===================================== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 223988 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 1005.34 |====================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 316.77 |============ Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 326.17 |============ Intel Optane 16GB ......... 150.36 |====== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 1125.37 |========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 257348 |=========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 79189 |============= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 81537 |============== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 37586 |====== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 899.89 |================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 218.27 |======== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 1100.20 |========================================== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 907.67 |=================================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 996.55 |====================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 224969 |================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 54564 |======== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 281630 |=========================================== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 226914 |=================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 1000.98 |==================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 365.58 |============= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 875.35 |================================ Intel Optane 16GB ......... 148.57 |===== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 1155.73 |========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 256171 |=========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 91391 |=============== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 218835 |===================================== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 37139 |====== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 271.67 |=========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 160.20 |========================= Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 118.30 |=================== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 112.03 |================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 170.17 |=========================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 723.98 |=========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 131.80 |======== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 299.33 |================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 222.13 |============= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 683.00 |========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 163.24 |========== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 226.72 |============== Intel Optane 16GB ......... 704.88 |=========================================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 161.05 |========== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 1202.23 |========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 233.15 |======== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 856.01 |============================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 592.53 |===================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 655.71 |========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 578.43 |===================================== Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 667.60 |=========================================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 465.26 |============================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.6.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Corsair Force MP500 240GB . 5086.88 |========================================== Crucial MX500 525GB ....... 1416.43 |============ Samsung 950 PRO 256GB ..... 2422.54 |==================== Samsung 960 Evo 500GB ..... 3310.30 |=========================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 960 Evo 500GB . 162658 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 960 Evo 500GB . 288220 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 960 Evo 500GB . 249134 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 960 Evo 500GB . 295935 |===============================================