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 X8'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 X8's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 984.47 MB/s and write at 919.46 MB/s.
The X8 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 136.92 MB/s and write at 155.27 MB/s.
Crucial really doesn't say what the X8 is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 35,050 random read IOPS and 39,749 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the X8's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 38,431 random read IOPS.
