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 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 535.05 MB/s and write at 465.24 MB/s.
The MX500 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 194.93 MB/s and write at an impressive 300.81 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 500GB MX500 is capable of 95,000 IOPS when reading and 90,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 49,901 random read IOPS and 77,006 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the MX500 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 98,909 random read IOPS and 88,060 random write IOPS.
