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 P5 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 P5 Plus' performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 6177.5 MB/s and write at 4778.24 MB/s.
The P5 Plus' random read and write performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to read at a respectable 399.20 MB/s, its write speed averaged out at only 566.53 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 1TB P5 Plus is capable of 630,000 IOPS when reading and 700,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 102,195 random read IOPS and 145,034 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the P5 Plus performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 697,421 random read IOPS and 657,285 random write IOPS.
