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 CS1311'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 CS1311's performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to read at an impressive 540.07 MB/s, its sequential write speed averaged out at only 225.12 MB/s.
The CS1311 wasn't one of the faster drives we've tested when it came to random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 123.17 MB/s and write at 154.57 MB/s.
According to PNY, the 480GB CS1311 is capable of delivering a maximum of 95,000 IOPS when reading and writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 31,532 random read IOPS and 39,571 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the CS1311's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 81,841 random read IOPS.
