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 Trion 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 Trion 100's performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to read at a respectable 537.28 MB/s, its sequential write speed averaged out at only 208.14 MB/s.
The Trion 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 123.5 MB/s and write at 118.21 MB/s.
According to OCZ, the 480GB Trion 100 is capable of 90,000 IOPS when reading and 54,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 31,616 random read IOPS and 30,262 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the Trion 100's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 82,626 random read IOPS.
