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 X10 Pro'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 X10 Pro's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1973.51 MB/s and write at 1700.28 MB/s.
The X10 Pro wasn't one of the faster drives we've tested when it came to random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 109.06 MB/s and write at 333.28 MB/s.
Crucial really doesn't say what the X10 Pro is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 27,920 random read IOPS and 85,319 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the X10 Pro's random write performance. However, with four threads and the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 69,444 random read IOPS.
