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 P3 Plus' 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 P3 Plus' performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 4757.58 MB/s and write at 4039.25 MB/s.
The P3 Plus also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 334.32 MB/s and write at 656.98 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 2TB P3 Plus is capable of 680,000 IOPS when reading and 800,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 85,587 random read IOPS and 168,188 random write IOPS.
The P3 Plus' random write performance was limited somewhat by its DRAM-less controller. With an 8GB test file, it peaked at about 231,000 IOPS. Using a smaller 1GB test file, the P3 Plus was able to bypass this limitation and reach a respectable 671,438 IOPS.
