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 Gold P31'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 Gold P31's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 3385.87 MB/s and write at 3162.02 MB/s.
The Gold P31 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 361.07 MB/s and write at a blazing 848.54 MB/s.
According to SK hynix, the 1TB Gold P31 is capable of 570,000 IOPS when reading and 600,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 92,443 random read IOPS and 217,277 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the Gold P31 performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 423,211 random read IOPS and 391,909 random write IOPS.
