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 X9 Pro'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 X9 Pro's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 952.57 MB/s and write at 935.07 MB/s.
The X9 Pro wasn't one of the faster drives we've tested when it came to random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 106.94 MB/s and write at 300.74 MB/s.
Crucial really doesn't say what the X9 Pro is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 27,377 random read IOPS and 76,789 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the X9 Pro's random write performance. However, with four threads and the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 59,527 random read IOPS.
