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 Vector 150'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 Vector 150's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 484.58 MB/s and write at 448.61 MB/s.
The Vector 150 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 98.20 MB/s and write at 287.51 MB/s.
According to OCZ, the 120GB Vector 150 is capable of 80,000 IOPS when reading and 95,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 25,138 random read IOPS and 73,603 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 Vector 150 reached 79,115 random read IOPS and 85,050 random write IOPS.
