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 Extreme II'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 Extreme II's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 528.32 MB/s and write at 489.82 MB/s.
The Extreme II also performed pretty well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 161.03 MB/s and write at 253.95 MB/s.
According to SanDisk, the 240GB Extreme II is capable of 95,000 IOPS when reading and 78,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 41,223 random read IOPS and 65,012 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the Extreme II's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 94,041 random read IOPS.
