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 P44 Pro'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 P44 Pro's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 7062.86 MB/s and write at a blazing 6332.85 MB/s.
The P44 Pro also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 479.44 MB/s and write at 672.11 MB/s.
According to Solidigm, the 2TB P44 Pro is capable of 1,400k IOPS when reading and 1,300k IOPS when writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 122,136 random read IOPS and 172,059 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the P44 Pro performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 1,003,488 random read IOPS and 795,101 random write IOPS.
