Samsung Portable SSD T1 250GB 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.

Samsung Portable SSD T1 250GB on USB 3.0 – 100% Incompressable Data:

Samsung Portable SSD T1 250GB on USB 3.0 – Application Test:

Benchmark Results: The overall Anvil SSD Benchmark score was 2,876.97 with 431MB/s read and 410MB/s write speeds on the Applications test setting of 46% compression. With 100% compression the overall performance went down just a touch, but the sequential read speed went up to 433MB/s and the write speed was 410MB/s.