"We used the System76 Serval Notebook for our tests
with its Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor, Intel Mobile 4 Series
Chipset, 4GB of system memory, the 32GB Intel SSDSA2SH032G1GN SATA
SSD, and a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX Mobile GPU. For our testing we
were using an Ubuntu 9.04 development release with the Linux 2.6.28
kernel, GNOME 2.25.91, X Server 1.5.99.902, xf86-video-nv 2.1.12,
Mesa 7.3, OpenJDK 1.4, and GCC 4.3.3. We had tested the ReiserFS,
JFS, XFS, EXT3, and EXT4 file-systems when performing a clean
install of Ubuntu 9.04 each time that occupied the entire 32GB
solid-state drive.
"The benchmarks we ran with the Phoronix Test Suite were timed
ImageMagick compilation, Parallel BZIP2 compression, LZMA
compression, LAME MP3 encoding, GnuPG, Bork File Encrypter, IOzone,
and Flexible IO Tester. We previously have provided real world
benchmarks of the EXT4 file-system and other Linux disk tests, but
in this article we are just looking at how different file-systems
perform on the high-performance Intel X25-E SSD. During testing all
Ubuntu Linux settings were left at their defaults (including disk
mount options)."