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 PX10'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 PX10's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 956.31 MB/s and write at 974.44 MB/s.
The PX10 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 153.91 MB/s and write at 316.57 MB/s.
Silicon Power really doesn't say what the PX10 is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 39,401 random read IOPS and 81,401 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the PX10 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 99,028 random read IOPS and 87,916 random write IOPS.
