Intel SSD Pro 2500 Series 240GB Enterprise SSD Review

Anvil Storage Utilities

Anvil Storage Utilities 1.1.0

Along with the move to a new platform, we decided to make a change in one of the benchmarks. There’s a relatively new benchmark called Anvil Storage Utilities that is in beta but close to production. It’s a very powerful tool that measures performance through a variety of tests which can be customized. Since some of the tests more or less duplicate what we get from other benchmarks we use already, we decided to use the IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) testing on 4kb file sizes at a queue depth of 4, 16, and 32. IOPS performance is something SSD makers tout quite a bit but we generally don’t do a lot of IOPS testing because frankly a lot of users can’t relate to IOPS metrics as well and it tends to be more meaningful to the enterprise/server crowd. Still, it is another performance indicator with relevance and while some drives post good MB/s numbers, their IOPS scores aren’t always commensurate which this test will prove out.

Anvil SSD Benchmark:

Benchmark Results: The overall Anvil SSD Benchmark score was just shy of 3,900 with 100% compression (incompressible data) and just under 3,500 with the Applications test setting of 46% compression. 4K QD16 IOPS performance was right around 52k write and 62.5k read. Intel says that the SSD Pro 2500 series is capable of up to 80k IOPs random write and 45k IOPs random read, so we are slightly lower than we hoped for when it comes to the random write performance.