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 1685.12 MB/s and write at 887.92 MB/s.
The P1 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 243.63 MB/s and write at 554.95 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 500GB P1 is capable of 90,000 IOPS when reading and 220,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 62,370 random read IOPS and 142,068 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the P1 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 87,464 random read IOPS and 164,844 random write IOPS.
