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 MX300 M.2'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 MX300 M.2's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 498.24 MB/s and write at 495.75 MB/s.
The MX300 M.2 also performed surprisingly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 134.54 MB/s and write at a blazing 314.48 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 525GB MX300 M.2 is capable of 92,000 IOPS when reading and 83,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 34,441 random read IOPS and 80,508 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the MX300 M.2's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 90,457 random read IOPS.
