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 US75'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 US75's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 6776.01 MB/s and write at 5999.92 MB/s.
The US75 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 330.37 MB/s and write at a blazing 982.84 MB/s.
Silicon Power really doesn't say what the US75 is capable of in regards to IOPS. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 84,575 random read IOPS and 251,607 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the US75 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 691,046 random read IOPS and 980,905 random write IOPS.
