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 Seagate'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 600 SSD's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 484.58 MB/s and write at 448.61 MB/s.
The 600 SSD also performed pretty well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 141.88 MB/s and write at 293.97 MB/s.
According to Seagate, the 240GB version of the 600 SSD is capable of 80,000 IOPS when reading and 70,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 36,322 random read IOPS and 75,256 random write IOPS. The only way I was able to reach 80,000 random read IOPS was to increase the queue depth. With the queue depth set to 32, the SSD 600 reached 91,439 random read IOPS and 83,192 random write IOPS.
