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 M9PG Plus' 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 M9PG Plus' performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to write at a respectable 2244.20 MB/s, its sequential read speed averaged out at only 2321.60 MB/s.
The M9PG Plus also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 334.16 MB/s and write at 765.42 MB/s.
According to Plextor, the 1TB M9PG Plus is capable of up to 340,000 IOPS when reading and 320,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 85,545 random read IOPS and 195,947 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the M9PG Plus performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 379,535 random read IOPS and 302,913 random write IOPS.
