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 Vector'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 Vector's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 530.15 MB/s and write at 504.02 MB/s.
The Vector also performed pretty well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 111.39 MB/s and write at 307.52 MB/s.
According to OCZ, the 256GB Vector is capable of 100,000 IOPS when reading and 95,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 28,517 random read IOPS and 78,725 random write IOPS. The only way I came close to OCZ's numbers was to increase the queue depth. With the queue depth set to 32, the Vector reached 94,104 random read IOPS and 83,820 random write IOPS.
