Good point on benchmarks:
https://blog.purestorage.com/why-iops-dont-matter/

Benchmark to get a rough idea of potential improvement between 2 different storage platforms. Compare different data sizes, dont look for peak numbers.

Check IOPS with Anvils storage utilities (ignore error on open), this test is pretty limited, 
Suggested on windows to use EzFIO gui (takes ~2 hours to run), run the bat or ps1 file, and it will launch a gui, 
the test drive will be erased, and can have no drive letter.
https://github.com/earlephilhower/ezfio
You can also run fio.exe on the command line to run quick non-destructive tests, but output is text only, no graphs.

IOMeter is 2nd best to FIO, try the "All" profile, (supports win/lin), 10-20GB test file is suggested. 
On HDD, it is recommended to run test for 30min, on SSD for 8 hours.
http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html

For more real life simulation, FIO is best-
https://www.virtualtothecore.com/my-new-io-test-virtual-machine/
On linux systems, you can easily graph FIO output to SVG/PNG files (or move windows results to linux to generate graphs-
https://github.com/intel/fiovisualizer
https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/how-to-benchmark-ssds-with-fio-visualizer/#gs.arrdmc
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/axboe/fio

"Plain throughput" benchmarks are Crystal Diskmark, Atto, these are not very good at telling you how good your storage is.

