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 NV7000-Q'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 NV7000-Q didn't perform as well as it did in our other tests. When tested with Iometer, the drive was able to read at 6181.09 MB/s and write at only 5053.03 MB/s.
The NV7000-Q performed better when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 470.88 MB/s and write at a blazing 992.37 MB/s.
Netac really doesn't say what the NV7000-Q is capable of in regards to IOPS. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 120,545 random read IOPS and 254,046 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the NV7000-Q performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With eight threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 686,738 random read IOPS and 656,201 random write IOPS. For whatever reason, the drive's random read performance was actually lower with 16 threads.
