Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another new benchmark designed with SSDs in mind. The standard storage benchmark measures a drive's performance by testing its transfer speeds, access times and IOPS.
Iometer:
Lastly, I ran a series of tests using Iometer. This tool can be configured to benchmark a number of things. In this case, I used it to measure the Ultimate SU800's read and write speeds and the number of operations per second. The tests were run using random bytes and a queue depth of 3.
The SU800's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 536.71 MB/s and write at 495.24 MB/s.
The SU800 also performed surprisingly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 142.78 MB/s and write at a blazing 290.36 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the SU800 is capable of 90,000 IOPS when reading and 80,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 36,552 random read IOPS and 74,332 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the SU800 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 82,638 random read IOPS and 83,927 random write IOPS.
