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 MX500'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 MX500's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 537.74 MB/s and write at 491.05 MB/s.
The MX500 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 180.17 MB/s and write at a respectable 306.55 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 4TB MX500 is capable of 90,000 IOPS when reading and writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 46,123 random read IOPS and 78,477 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the MX500 performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 83,908 random read IOPS and 92,097 random write IOPS.
