plain-fio-64k Intel Core i5-2500K testing with a Gigabyte B75M-D3V (FD BIOS) and MSI AMD Radeon RX 570 8192MB on Fedora 28 via the Phoronix Test Suite. INTEL SSDSC2BW12: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte B75M-D3V (FD BIOS), Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2BW12 + 3001GB Western Digital WD30EFRX-68A + 180GB INTEL SSDSC2KW18, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 570 8192MB, Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Monitor: DELL U2414H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Fedora 28, Kernel: 4.18.12-200.fc28.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0.1), Compiler: GCC 8.1.1 20180712, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /run/media/benjamin/8db973fc-09e4-4822-a8b0-7867fc6ce6b2 MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 681 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /run/media/benjamin/8db973fc-09e4-4822-a8b0-7867fc6ce6b2 IOPS > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 10900 |===================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /run/media/benjamin/8db973fc-09e4-4822-a8b0-7867fc6ce6b2 MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 661 |======================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /run/media/benjamin/8db973fc-09e4-4822-a8b0-7867fc6ce6b2 IOPS > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 10600 |===================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: /run/media/benjamin/8db973fc-09e4-4822-a8b0-7867fc6ce6b2 MB/s > Higher Is Better INTEL SSDSC2BW12 . 119.28 |====================================================