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.
Optiarc VP 480GB - Incompressible Data
Optiarc VP 480GB - Compressible Data
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 VP'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 VP's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 531.25 MB/s and write at 452.43 MB/s.
The VP performed relatively well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 167.52 MB/s and write at 242.24 MB/s.
According to Optiarc, the VP is capable of 63,000 IOPS when reading and 85,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 42,886 random read IOPS and 62,015 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the VP performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 77,456 random read IOPS and 74,367 random write IOPS.
