Samsung 970 EVO | TuxCube Intel Core i7-7700 testing with a ZOTAC MEK1 (5.12 BIOS) and Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB on Ubuntu 18.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube: Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 @ 4.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370M D3H-CF (F6 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 3ec2, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8192MB (1531/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: 2778X, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.19.6-041906-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Budgie, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.27, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 SSD vs NVMe TuxCube: Processor: Intel Core i7-7700 @ 4.20GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ZOTAC MEK1 (5.12 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th + B250, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000LM048-2E71 + 4GB ProductCode + 256GB PCIe SSD, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB (1607/4006MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: 2778X, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Wireless 3165 OS: Ubuntu 18.10, Kernel: 4.18.0-13-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.30.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.1, Display Driver: NVIDIA 410.78, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 8.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Application Start-up Time 2.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Sequential Reads + Writes - Application To Start: GNOME Terminal - Disk Target: Default Test Directory sec < Lower Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 4.76 |=============================================== Application Start-up Time 2.4.0 Background I/O Mix: Sequential Reads + Writes - Application To Start: LibreOffice Writer - Disk Target: Default Test Directory sec < Lower Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 3.77 |=============================================== BlogBench 1.1 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 538713 |============================================= BlogBench 1.1 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 12037 |============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 1010 |=============================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-4.15.tar.xz Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 4.92 |=============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 Evo TuxCube . 7282 |===============================================