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 T500'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 T500's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 7035.30 MB/s and write at 6696.23 MB/s.
The T500 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 428.03 MB/s and write at a blazing 731.46 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 2TB T500 is capable of 1,180K IOPS when reading and 1,440K IOPS when writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 109,575 random read IOPS and 187,254 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the T500 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 975,254 random read IOPS and 762,230 random write IOPS.
