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 T5'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 T5's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 529.20 MB/s and write at 502.97 MB/s.
The T5 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 115.08 MB/s and write at an impressive 128.63 MB/s.
Samsung really doesn't say what the T5 is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 29,460 random read IOPS and 32,931 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the T5's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 39,126 random read IOPS.
