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 LEGEND 960'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 LEGEND 960's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 7098.19 MB/s and write at 5988.67 MB/s.
The LEGEND 960 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 439.90 MB/s and write at a blazing 746.45 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 1TB LEGEND 960 is capable of 730,000 IOPS when reading and 610,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 112,615 random read IOPS and 191,091 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the LEGEND 960 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 925,341 random read IOPS and 718,927 random write IOPS.
