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 P310'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 P310's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 6452.76 MB/s and write at 3545.87 MB/s.
The P310 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 388.65 MB/s and write at 952.33 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 500GB P310 is capable of 520K IOPS when reading and 890K IOPS when writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 99,495 random read IOPS and 243,796 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the P310 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 552,335 random read IOPS and 876,592 random write IOPS.
