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 T700'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 T700's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 11,604.89 MB/s and write at 11,265.49 MB/s.
The T700 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 499.14 MB/s and write at a blazing 1,297.26 MB/s.
According to Crucial, the 1TB T700 is capable of 1,500K IOPS when reading and writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 127,781 random read IOPS and 332,099 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the T700 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 1,384,398 random read IOPS and 1,153,605 random write IOPS.
