Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another new 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 HyperX Savage'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 HyperX Savage's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 538.44 MB/s and write at 517.58 MB/s.
The HyperX Savage also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 144.08 MB/s and write at a blazing 336.08 MB/s.
According to Kingston, the HyperX Savage is capable of delivering a maximum of 100,000 IOPS when reading and 89,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 36,885 random read IOPS and 86,036 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the HyperX Savage's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 92,576 random read IOPS.
