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. This test was first run with incompressible data and then again with highly compressible (0-Fill) data.
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB - Incompressible Data
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB - Compressible Data
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 SSDNow V300'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 SSDNow V300's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. With highly compressible, repeating data, the drive was able to read at 529.35 MB/s and write at 506.52 MB/s. The V300 did not slow nearly as much as the V+200 when reading random data. However, its write speeds dropped to 163.76 MB/s.
The SSDNow V300 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. With repeating data, the drive was able to read at 72.64 MB/s and write at a blazing 313.31 MB/s. Here too, the SSDNow V300 took a performance hit when tested with random data. However, it was still able to write at 156.61 MB/s.
According to Kingston, the SSDNow V300 can deliver a maximum of 55,000 IOPS when randomly writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 80,206 IOPS with repeating data and 40,061 IOPS with random data.
