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 P34A60'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 P34A60's performance here was similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1654.01 MB/s and write at 1593.84 MB/s.
The P34A60 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 239.35 MB/s and write at 597.08 MB/s.
According to Silicon Power, the 1TB P34A60 is capable of 240,000 IOPS when reading and 250,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 61,274 random read IOPS and 152,854 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the P34A60 performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 188,338 random read IOPS and 208,385 random write IOPS.
