Anvil's Storage Utilities

[Anvil]

RC5 is now available.

Download link

Fixes
- Endurance testing, further ensuring that the MD5 testfile can no longer be cached.
- Initial testing on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 showed no issues.

Next release will include most of the functionality that was supposed to be included in this release.
(unfortunately I have been travelling most of the summer so no time yet to fix the last few missing pieces)

I'll have a look at making a "Roadmap" sometime next week.

[tived]

Thanks Anvil,

Hope you had great travels

on another note, where can i find information on how to read the data from the benchmark - i am trying to set my workstation up as a photo editing workstation for doing large pano's and one of the bottlenecks is the storage.

So using your benchmark i was hoping to be able to test and configure the storage, in such a way, that best suits what I do.

also, maybe we need to have a leaderboard, what drive or drives that performs the best with said controller... i ain't no programmer so i will have to let someone else do the work

thanks

Henrik

[newmore]

Downloaded Release Candidate 2 Ver 1.0.45.336(2012-06-04) and prompted Beta expired, help please!

[B Gates]

your answer is 2 posts above there is RC5 for download

[alan1476]

Thanks Uncle Bill.

[tived]

Hi Anvil,

i am not sure whats going on here, but i just d/l RC5 and ran a test - now this array is connected to my Areca 1882ix but when you look what the software is saying, it says that its a Seagate drive and the driver is a magasas2 (LSI) when its clearly not.
please see attached image


really weird :-) but hey it happens ;-)

thanks

Henrik

[jax7480]

I'm using ASU for quite some time now and would like to thank you for all your great work.

Some test results from me...

System: Asus MVF, Core i7 2600K@4.5G, RAM 4x4GB 1866, all drives with OS on them.

2x Plextor M5Pro 128GB @ Raid0 @ 32K Stripe



2x Samsung 830 128GB @ Raid0 @ 16K Stripe



2x Vertex4 128GB @ Raid0 @ 128K Stripe



Thank you again for this awesome contribution...

[boomhowler]

Hello! Thanks for making an awesome application, I just wonder one thing:

Will this be released on another platform than Windows? I have a lot of computers, both at work and at home, which does not run Windows (and I want it to stay that way). It would be great to run this software on Linux/Mac OS X as well.

[WayneBike]

Here is my first run at this.

5xKingston KC100 128gb SSD's (BBF0 firmware) in Raid 0 on an LSI 9265-8i.

[Gavric]

Anvil,
could you please to add possibility of copy all results to clipboard as text? The screenshot doesn't always comfortable, and "copy results to clipboard" function grabs only summarized scores, not read/write ratings in MB/s.

[Anvil]

@Gavric
I'll add it to the to do list!

@boomhowler

Not sure yet, I've got a Mac...

[Kain665]

Anvil,

Your MD5 checking function seems to be broken in RC5. No matter what file I point it to, it always comes back with the same checksum.

[Anvil]

OK, I can reproduce the issue when testing a file sitting on the same drive as the application, I'll fix

There is no issue when being used the way it was meant to be used, as in, testfile is put on a different drive.
(anyways I'll find out what's going on, meanwhile put the file to be tested on a separate drive)

[Kain665]

Ah, gotcha.

[m.oreilly]

thank you anvil for the superb bench

can you guys with cards (ie cache from 1 gig up) increase your test file size? the 4k reads are a bit inflated because of cache/test file at cache size. your ssds can't produce those numbers, especially at single 4k Qdepth...

[Tomasis]

are there ways to tweak more?

Strip 128k. Blank drive

[B Gates]

are there ways to tweak more?

Strip 128k. Blank drive

Try 64K stripe, enable write caching and make sure all cstates and speed stepping are disabled.

[Russian]

Here is my first run at this.

5xKingston KC100 128gb SSD's (BBF0 firmware) in Raid 0 on an LSI 9265-8i.

I don't get why my score was so much lower than yours with more, faster drives and with a better RAID controller. Hrmph.

[Highendtoys]

Isn't the KC100 a drive with async flash? I honestly can't remember off the top of my head but I think it was a drive with async flash.

[joelz]

ok, sorry if i talked too much

one question about random IOPS, why did you decide to test only at low/mid queue depth ?

i know that QD=4 is a typical desktop scenario, but there are a lot of SSD
(or RAID configurations) that require a higher queue depth to obtain the
best performance

Inquiring minds want to know (this wasn't answered)

A lot is left on the table for SSD benchmarks, so it does not show true capabilities. I do get there are specific read and write tests aside from the main test that allow configuring queue depth. For those tests, I'm getting max throughput (9.8 GB/s). Other tests do not seem to show accurate numbers in terms of what the volume is capable of.

[nik58]

SAMSUNG 840 PRO 128 GB, SINGLE E RAID 0





win7




Saluti

[DooRules]

Single Samsung 840 Pro, 256 gb version

[B Gates]

Here's a Vector 256GB

[B Gates]

Pair of Vectors 256GB in RAID 0

[jax7480]

The Vectors seem to have great writes, but the read performance is poor.