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 MX100'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 MX100's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 535.76 MB/s and write at 328.99 MB/s.
The MX100 also performed surprisingly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 147.03 MB/s and write at 307.13 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 256GB MX100 is capable of 85,000 IOPS when reading and 75,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 37,639 random read IOPS and 78,625 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the MX100's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 96,896 random read IOPS.
