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 860 QVO'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 860 QVO's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 534.10 MB/s and write at 500.23 MB/s.
The 860 QVO's random read and write performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to write at an impressive 342.10 MB/s, its read speed averaged out at only 76.82 MB/s.
According to Samsung, the 1TB 860 QVO is capable of 96,000 IOPS when reading and 89,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 19,666 random read IOPS and 87,577 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the 860 QVO's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 36,568 random read IOPS.
