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 NM610'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 NM610's performance here was similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1744.50 MB/s and write at 1608.52 MB/s.
The NM610 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 236.33 MB/s and write at 553.38 MB/s.
According to Lexar, the 1TB NM610 is capable of 188,000 IOPS when reading and 156,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 60,500 random read IOPS and 141,665 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the NM610 performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 218,616 random read IOPS and 203,932 random write IOPS.
