Iometer
We reckon the Iometer test is the gold standard by which consumer drives are judged. The drives are bombarded with large-file-size sequential throughput and small-file random reads and writes. By doing this we can expose any weakness in the controller and NAND setup. The drives go through an hour of preconditioning before running the benchmarks.
Sequential performance remains sharp, and the latest firmware provides excellent random 4K read IOPS and acceptable write IOPS. Overall, SK hynix's Canvas SC300 does well for a 256GB model.
