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 Agility 4'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 Agility 4's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 383.68 MB/s and write at 386.19 MB/s.
The Agility 4 performed relatively well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 99.89 MB/s and write at a blazing 309.36 MB/s.
According to OCZ, the Agility 4 is capable of 48,000 IOPS when reading and 85,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 25,573 random read IOPS and 79,197 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the Agility 4's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 65,247 random read IOPS.
