iozone benchmarking 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. diskbench: 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 (1923/5508MHz), 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 IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskbench . 7557.32 |========================================================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better diskbench . 278.40 |=========================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-4.15.tar.xz Seconds < Lower Is Better diskbench . 5.95 |=============================================================