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 BX200'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 BX200's performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to read at a respectable 532.42 MB/s, its sequential write speed averaged out at only 148.76 MB/s.
The BX200 wasn't one of the faster drives we've tested when it came to random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 91.16 MB/s and write at 100.46 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 480GB BX200 is capable of 66,000 IOPS when reading and 78,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 23,338 random read IOPS and 25,717 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the BX200's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 73,081 random read IOPS.
