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 MX200'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 MX200's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 534.59 MB/s and write at 488.06 MB/s.
The MX200 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 148.63 MB/s and write at a blazing 346.63 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the MX200 is capable of 100,000 IOPS when reading and 87,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 38,050 random read IOPS and 88,737 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the MX200's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 88,769 random read IOPS.
