m.2 Intel Core i7-6700K testing with a ASUS Z170-DELUXE and Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. m.2 testing: Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.20GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z170-DELUXE, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500, Memory: 4 x 16384 MB DDR4-2133MT/s, Disk: 4001GB Seagate ST4000NM0033-9ZM + 500GB Samsung SSD 860 + 960GB CT960BX200SSD1, Graphics: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11264MB (1506/5508MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.27, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: LLVM 6.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 4920x1920 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better m.2 testing . 38.67 |========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better m.2 testing . 126.67 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better m.2 testing . 54.38 |========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better m.2 testing . 2374.05 |======================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-4.15.tar.xz Seconds < Lower Is Better m.2 testing . 5.98 |===========================================================