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.
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 M8Pe'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 M8Pe's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2052.45 MB/s and write at 1206.09 MB/s.
The M8Pe also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 260.88 MB/s and write at 673.77 MB/s.
According to Plextor, the 512GB M8Pe is capable of up to 260,000 IOPS when reading and 250,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 66,784 random read IOPS and 172,486 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the M8Pe performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 275,244 random read IOPS and 235,167 random write IOPS.
