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 CS2211'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 CS2211's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 539.85 MB/s and write at 518.82 MB/s.
The CS2211 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 147.78 MB/s and write at a blazing 336.65 MB/s.
According to PNY, the CS2211 is capable of delivering a maximum of 95,000 IOPS when reading and writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 37,832 random read IOPS and 86,183 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the CS2211's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 91,045 random read IOPS.
