Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another new 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 M8V'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 M8V's performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to read at a respectable 534.24 MB/s, its sequential write speed averaged out at only 296.36 MB/s.
The M8V performed relatively well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 132.6 MB/s and write at 248.95 MB/s.
According to Plextor, the 256GB M8V is capable of 81,000 IOPS when reading and 80,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 33,953 random read IOPS and 63,731 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the M8V's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 74,325 random read IOPS.
