Anvil's Storage Utilities

[johnw]

Interesting. The Vertex 3 gets about 20MB/s on 4K random read with ASU, which is about the same with AS-SSD (at least with the old firmware) and IOMeter. It is still only CDM that gets over 30MB/s. Although you got pretty close to 30MB/s on your 8%/1GB run.

[Anvil]

Yeah, the Vertex 3 will do 30ish with easily compressible data.

One should always run benchmarks on the SF drives when they are in steady-state, otherwise the results can be somewhat unpredictable. (and optimistic)
This drive was upgraded this morning and was secure erased as well and so it needs some time to settle.

[mak1skav]

There it goes my benchmark for a non SSD system

DELL PERC 5i.png

P.S. When i am trying to re-run the benchmark i am getting the error message "Test file was not created!" and i have to exit from the program and then reload it.I don't know if this a known problem or if it is normal.

[One_Hertz]

Anvil - how about another column showing CPU usage during each test? Perhaps add your mixed IO test to the default benchmark?

[Anvil]

I'm aware of that issue, already fixed but it has not been published yet.
(Will make a post when the next beta is available for download)

@One_Hertz

Working on some more info (like cpu usage) and the MixedIO module in general, I'm not sure it will make it into the default benchmark as I'm trying to keep writes down to a minimum.
It will definitely make it into one of the more "advanced" benchmarks.

[chispy]

Awsome software Anvil , well done. Ill post some results later. Thank you.

[chispy]

@ Anvil , you asked for some Areca results heres mine 6x Acards Raid0 on Areca 1231ML 4GB Raid Card.

11,042.79 Total


By chispy at 2011-07-29

[One_Hertz]

You are running on cache. Increase test size to 8GB

[flamenko]

Anvil... You were asking for these...

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[Anvil]

Beta5 2011-August-01
-Will now show if Volume is compressed.
-Option to recreate testfiles on every Full run
-Option for setting runtime length of MixedIO in ms.
-Cosmetic fixes (some are still open)
-Display IRST version for 32bit OS.
-Settings have been rearranged.
-Save Screenshot in Threaded IO read/write now defaults to PNG

I'll post an update when the beta is available for download. (it was sent for publishing 10 minutes ago)

This shows the effect of compressing the drive/volume
(hence it is highlighted)

OCZ-VERTEX2_60GB_1GB-20110730-2359_compressed.png

[Vapor]

Intel X25-M G1 80GB in a used state (hasn't seen a SE in well over a year):




2R0 Vertex 2 50GB in a used state (hasn't seen TRIM or SE in over a year):

[Anvil]

Pretty good!
Doesn't look like there's much performance loss on either of the "drives".

Some more nostalgia

INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GC_80GB_1GB-20110802-2117_spi.png

[lowfat]

My ioXtreme.

[deathman20]

Any word on the update link Anvil?

[Anvil]

I'm sorry for the delay!

I have put up an preliminary download link to Beta5 in the first post.

[bluestang]

I'm sorry for the delay!

I have put up an preliminary download link to Beta5 in the first post.

Getting this with Windows extract...



And Winrar says "unexpected end of archive"

[Anvil]

I'll have a look at it, I recall errors of that kind when linked from the Norwegian forum.

edit;
I just downloaded using both IE9 and Chrome and both are OK when unpacked using 7Zip

Could you try 7Zip and report back what happens?

[bluestang]

Download of 7Zip is fine...thanks!

Here is my contribution...

[Vapor]

Download of 7Zip is fine...thanks!

Here is my contribution...

Very impressive use of $200

[Hondacity]

here is my bloated win7 + supertalent ssd

[Anvil]

Download of 7Zip is fine...thanks!

Here is my contribution...

They are just great, reminds me about the C300 64GB when they were launched.

Very impressive use of $200

I don't think there are any alternatives in this price range.

here is my bloated win7 + supertalent ssd

Looks to be good on reads, a bit slow on small block writes though. (still outperforming HDDs where it counts)

[bluestang]

Very impressive use of $200

They are just great, reminds me about the C300 64GB when they were launched.

I don't think there are any alternatives in this price range.

Yeah guys, really happy I went the 2x64GB RAID0 route instead of a single 128GB

And even happier I didn't go the SF route

[deathman20]

Yeah guys, really happy I went the 2x64GB RAID0 route instead of a single 128GB

And even happier I didn't go the SF route

Love my m4's as we'll. I'll have to post my results tonight. Mines just running on SATA II and is a huge improvement to what I did have before.

[DooRules]

great bench Anvil, many thanks bud...

2 c300 128gb R0 on sata 3

[cx-ray]

2R0 C300 256GB. Seq. read held back by SATA II.

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