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 NQ100'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 NQ100's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 540.15 MB/s and write at 462.96 MB/s.
The NQ100 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 117.18 MB/s and write at 255.49 MB/s.
Lexar really doesn't say what the NQ100 is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 29,997 random read IOPS and 65,406 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the NQ100's random write performance. However, with four threads and the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 53,650 random read IOPS.
