fsio_test001 Intel Core i7-7700HQ testing with a Notebook P95_HP HR HQ and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6144MB on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Notebook P95_HP HR HQ, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 + 134GB APPSD + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6144MB (1404/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.111, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 2050.43 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 4101 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 2048.50 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Sync - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 4096 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 1935.70 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 3868 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 1930.00 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 3857 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 1992.03 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: No - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 3980 |============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 1612.13 |=========================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: Yes - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 512KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Seagate ST1000LX015-1U71 . 3220 |==============================================