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 S31'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 S31's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 532.24 MB/s and write at 452.77 MB/s.
The Gold S31 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 161.51 MB/s and write at an impressive 318.82 MB/s.
According to SK hynix, the 1TB version of the Gold S31 is capable of 95,000 IOPS when reading and 87,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 41,346 random read IOPS and 81,618 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the Gold S31's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 99,470 random read IOPS.
