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 FALCON'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 FALCON's performance here was similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 3184.51 MB/s and write at 1522.22 MB/s.
The FALCON also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 279.62 MB/s and write at 604.61 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 1TB FALCON is capable of 180,000 IOPS when both reading and writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 71,582 random read IOPS and 154,781 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the FALCON performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 234,517 random read IOPS and 194,180 random write IOPS.
