PCIe NVMe SSD Linux 5.8 Benchmarks Intel Core i7-8809G testing with a Intel NUC8i7HVK on Linuxmint 20.1, Linux 5.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (2203 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.8.0-050800daily20200626-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 960 EVO 500GB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (2203 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.8.0-050800daily20200626-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 970 EVO 250GB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (2203 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.8.0-050800daily20200626-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Corsair Force MP600 2TB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (2203 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 2000GB Force MP600, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.8.0-050800daily20200626-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Corsair Force MP600 1TB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (2203 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 1000GB Force MP600, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.8.0-050800daily20200626-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (2203 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 16GB, Disk: 500GB Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD ZP500GM30002, Graphics: MSI AMD Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590 8GB (1366/2000MHz), Audio: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio, Monitor: ASUS MG28U, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel-AC 9260 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.8.0-050800daily20200626-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.8, OpenGL: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.4 (LLVM 9.0.1), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1: Processor: Intel Core i7-8809G @ 8.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Intel NUC8i7HVB (HNKBLi70.86A.0064.2020.1028.1438 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB, Graphics: llvmpipe, Audio: Intel CM238 HD Audio, Network: Intel I219-LM OS: Linuxmint 20.1, Kernel: 5.8.0-41-generic (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.24.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.9, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.9, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.6 (LLVM 11.0.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 SQLite 3.30.1 Threads / Copies: 1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 32.70 |================================ Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 39.49 |======================================= Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 36.64 |==================================== Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 15.21 |=============== Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 14.81 |=============== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 14.72 |=============== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 38.76 |====================================== SQLite 3.30.1 Threads / Copies: 8 Seconds < Lower Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 149.40 |=================== Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 293.42 |====================================== Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 198.96 |========================== Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 49.20 |====== Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 47.38 |====== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 47.26 |====== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 130.68 |================= Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Random Read - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 142000 |============= Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 253000 |======================= Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 138333 |============ Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 407400 |==================================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 426333 |====================================== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 337000 |============================== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 253667 |======================= Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Random Write - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 220333 |=================== Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 337000 |============================= Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 220333 |=================== Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 415000 |==================================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 415600 |==================================== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 443667 |====================================== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 130000 |=========== Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Sequential Read - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 3132 |======================================= Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 2969 |===================================== Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 3133 |======================================= Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 2867 |==================================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 3199 |======================================== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 1523 |=================== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 1342 |================= Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Sequential Write - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 2291.0 |======================= Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 1687.0 |================= Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 1276.0 |============= Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 1321.5 |============= Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 3833.0 |====================================== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 2412.0 |======================== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 1433.0 |============== Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6 Test: Random Fill Op/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . 983778 |========================================== Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... 927348 |======================================== Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... 903363 |======================================= Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... 884761 |====================================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... 872581 |===================================== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . 866702 |===================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 12.0 Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB ..... 7256.97 |============= Samsung 960 EVO 500GB .......... 5960.76 |========== Samsung 970 EVO 250GB .......... 6577.81 |=========== Corsair Force MP600 2TB ........ 10741.13 |=================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB ........ 13197.81 |======================= Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB ..... 20613.10 |==================================== Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 6334.53 |=========== MariaDB 10.5.2 Clients: 1 Queries Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . 1054 |=============== Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... 840 |============ Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... 828 |============ Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... 1421 |===================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... 1565 |======================= Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . 3012 |============================================ MariaDB 10.5.2 Clients: 4 Queries Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . 409 |========== Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... 324 |======== Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... 327 |======== Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... 480 |============ Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... 545 |============= Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . 1832 |============================================ MariaDB 10.5.2 Clients: 8 Queries Per Second > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . 370 |========= Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... 293 |======= Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... 290 |======= Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... 462 |=========== Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... 511 |============= Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . 1772 |============================================ IOR 3.2.1 Write Test MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . 293.82 |============== Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... 237.55 |============ Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... 264.39 |============= Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... 622.76 |============================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... 575.05 |============================ Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . 858.42 |========================================== IOR 3.2.1 Read Test MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . 1403.39 |========================================= Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... 919.76 |=========================== Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... 1080.97 |================================ Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... 909.47 |=========================== Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... 901.33 |========================== Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . 692.20 |==================== Drive Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Celsius Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB . MIN: 39.9 AVG: 52.5 MAX: 65.9 Samsung 960 EVO 500GB ...... MIN: 37.9 AVG: 41.7 MAX: 56.9 Samsung 970 EVO 250GB ...... MIN: 37.9 AVG: 41.0 MAX: 55.9 Corsair Force MP600 2TB .... MIN: 34.9 AVG: 41.2 MAX: 56.9 Corsair Force MP600 1TB .... MIN: 32.9 AVG: 39.7 MAX: 54.9 Seagate FireCuda 520 500GB . MIN: 35.9 AVG: 43.9 MAX: 57.9 Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Random Read - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 992 |========================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Random Write - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory MB/s > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 507 |========================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Sequential Read - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 667 |========================================= Flexible IO Tester 3.18 Type: Sequential Write - Engine: IO_uring - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 2MB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory IOPS > Higher Is Better Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB RAID1 . 712 |=========================================