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 SWORDFISH'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 SWORDFISH's performance here was similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1763.31 MB/s and write at 1146.69 MB/s.
The SWORDFISH also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 225.88 MB/s and write at 561.23 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 1TB SWORDFISH is capable of 180,000 IOPS when both reading and writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 57,825 random read IOPS and 143,675 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the SWORDFISH's random write performance. However, with four threads and the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 116,498 random read IOPS.
