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 180'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 180's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 530.35 MB/s and write at 483.70 MB/s.
The Vector 180 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 101.51 MB/s and write at 207.98 MB/s.
According to OCZ, the 240GB Vector 180 is capable of 95,000 IOPS when reading and 90,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 25,986 random read IOPS and 53,244 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 180 reached 88,389 random read IOPS and 81,307 random write IOPS.
