fio4k Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3 testing with a ASRockRack C226M WS (P2.30 BIOS) and ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB on LinuxMint 19 via the Phoronix Test Suite. fio4k: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: ASRockRack C226M WS (P2.30 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB (1227/3600MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: U3277WB, Network: Intel I217-LM + Intel I210 OS: LinuxMint 19, Kernel: 5.0.2-050002-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: NVIDIA 390.116, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fio4k . 1408 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better fio4k . 360500 |=============================================================== Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better fio4k . 1196 |================================================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.1 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Linux AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better fio4k . 306667 |===============================================================