Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another new 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 ARC 100'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 ARC 100's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 472.91 MB/s and write at 396.6 MB/s.
The ARC 100 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 113.69 MB/s and write at 215.36 MB/s.
According to OCZ, the 240GB ARC 100 is capable of 75,000 IOPS when reading and 80,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 28,850 random read IOPS and 55,132 random write IOPS. The only way I came close to OCZ's numbers was to increase the queue depth. With the queue depth set to 32, the ARC 100 reached 81,764 random read IOPS and 81,661 random write IOPS.
