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.
Patriot Hellfire 240GB - Incompressible Data
Patriot Hellfire 240GB - 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 Hellfire'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 Hellfire's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2462.33 MB/s and write at 1235.19 MB/s.
The Hellfire also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 217.47 MB/s and write at 836.54 MB/s.
According to Patriot, the 240GB Hellfire is capable of up to 170,000 IOPS when reading and 185,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 55,673 random read IOPS and 214,154 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the Hellfire performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 221,543 random read IOPS and 236,773 random write IOPS.
