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 BX100'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 BX100's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 512.47 MB/s and write at 439.82 MB/s.
The BX100 also performed relatively well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 117.88 MB/s and write at 265.95 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 500GB BX100 is capable of 90,000 IOPS when reading and 70,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 30,177 random read IOPS and 68,082 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the BX100 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 68,984 random read IOPS and 73,609 random write IOPS.
