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 BX300'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 BX300's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 534.10 MB/s and write at 485.03 MB/s.
The BX300 also performed surprisingly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 138.95 MB/s and write at a blazing 316.74 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 240GB BX300 is capable of 84,000 IOPS when reading and 90,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 35,572 random read IOPS and 81,087 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the BX300 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 81,550 random read IOPS and 84,395 random write IOPS.
