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 6183.93 MB/s and write at 4782.89 MB/s.
The P5 Plus performed surprisingly well when testing random read and write performance with Iometer. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 397.6 MB/s and write at a respectable 831.11 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 101,787 random read IOPS and 212,763 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 699,187 random read IOPS and 652,619 random write IOPS.
