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 P2'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 P2's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2203.11 MB/s and write at 1722.90 MB/s.
The P2 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 295.50 MB/s and write at 671.86 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 500GB P2 is capable of 95,000 IOPS when reading and 215,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 75,647 random read IOPS and 171,997 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the P2 performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 328,009 random read IOPS and 240,456 random write IOPS.