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 M6V'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 M6V's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 522.53 MB/s and write at 431.3 MB/s.
The M6V also performed relatively well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 140.4 MB/s and write at 273.82 MB/s.
According to Plextor, the 480GB M6V is capable of 83,000 IOPS when reading and 80,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 35,943 random read IOPS and 70,098 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the M6V performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 78,586 random read IOPS and 79,108 random write IOPS.
