Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another 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 P1'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 P1's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1713.85 MB/s and write at 1609.70 MB/s.
The P1 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 252.95 MB/s and write at 569.12 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 1TB P1 is capable of 170,000 IOPS when reading and 240,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 64,756 random read IOPS and 145,694 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the P1 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 169,518 random read IOPS and 167,806 random write IOPS.
