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 Q Series Pro'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 Q Series Pro's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 528.03 MB/s and write at 495.57 MB/s.
The Q Series Pro 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 111.47 MB/s and write at 225.09 MB/s.
According to Toshiba, the Q Series Pro is capable of 90,000 IOPS when reading and 35,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 28,537 random read IOPS and 57,621 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the Q Series Pro's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 94,141 random read IOPS.
