disk-tests AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core testing with a MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B78) v1.0 (2.30 BIOS) and eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB on LinuxMint 19.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. SSD 970 EVO 250GB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core @ 3.78GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B78) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 860 + 1000GB Expansion + 320GB FreeAgent Go, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3072MB (1607/4006MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GP106 HD Audio, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 19.1, Kernel: 4.18.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.27, OpenGL: 4.6.0, File-System: reiserfs, Screen Resolution: 7680x1440 Samsung SSD 860: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core @ 3.78GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B78) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 1000GB Samsung SSD 860 + 1000GB Expansion + 320GB FreeAgent Go, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3072MB (1607/4006MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GP106 HD Audio, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 19.1, Kernel: 4.18.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.3, Display Driver: NVIDIA 415.27, OpenGL: 4.6.0, File-System: reiserfs, Screen Resolution: 7680x1440 Samsung SSD 970 EVO: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X470 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B78) v1.0 (2.30 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB + Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB + 1000GB Samsung SSD 860 + 1000GB Expansion + 320GB FreeAgent Go + 31GB Ultra USB 3.0, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (1607/4006MHz), Audio: NVIDIA GP106 HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB258, Network: Intel I211 OS: LinuxMint 19.1, Kernel: 4.18.0-17-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: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: reiserfs, Screen Resolution: 7680x1440 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better SSD 970 EVO 250GB ... 60.23 |======================================== Samsung SSD 860 ..... 76.10 |================================================== Samsung SSD 970 EVO . 56.88 |===================================== IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD 970 EVO 250GB . 14122.75 |================================================= IOzone 3.465 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better SSD 970 EVO 250GB . 576.90 |=================================================== AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 860 . 1642.07 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO . 80.80 |================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO . 178.74 |================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO . 1127.67 |================================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung SSD 970 EVO . 389.34 |=================================================