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 960 PRO'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 960 PRO's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2915.36 MB/s and write at 1741.98 MB/s.
The 960 PRO also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 302.36 MB/s and write at a whopping 1036.58 MB/s.
According to Samsung, the 512GB 960 PRO is capable of up to 330,000 IOPS when reading and writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 77,414 random read IOPS and 265,364 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the 960 PRO's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 295,266 random read IOPS.
