The next benchmark is the Anvil Pro, an ‘all inclusive’ storage utility. The software is tests transfer speeds as well as IOPS  The IOPS tests can be configurable with preset testing scenarios for read (Seq 4MB, 4K, 4K QD4, 4K QD16, 32K and 128K), write (Seq 4MB, 4K, 4K QD4, 4K QD16) and mixed IO. 

We used the software with the RevoDrive 3 120SSD and tested the drive with 0-fill compression (RAW), 8% compression, 25% compression, 45% compression, 67% compression and finally 100 % (incompressible data). Below are the results:

• 0-fill

• Compression 8%

The drive's performance with 8% compressed files was surprisingly good:

• Compression 25%

As compression increases, the impact in the drive's writing performance is obvious:

• Compression 45%

• Compression 67%

• Compression 100%

In the following charts we illustrate the results we got from four different drives with 0-fill compression files:

Once again the results confirm that the RevoDrive 3 excels in both read/write operations with raw, compressible files. Sequential 4MB reading reached the 905.39 MB/s, while writing was 790.73 MB/s. Writing of 4K files was good but a little bit lower than we expected. However, the drive performed very well with 4K QD4 and QD 16 files, in both writing and reading tests.

With fully incompressible files, the RevoDrive 3 performed as a typical SanForce-based SSD: