Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another benchmark designed with SSDs in mind. The standard storage benchmark measures a drive's performance by testing its transfer speeds, access times and IOPS.
Iometer:
Lastly, I ran a series of tests using Iometer. This tool can be configured to benchmark a number of things. In this case, I used it to measure the GAMMIX S50 Lite's read and write speeds and the number of operations per second. The tests were run using random bytes and a queue depth of 3.
The GAMMIX S50 Lite's performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to write at an impressive 3089.53 MB/s, its sequential read speed averaged out at only 2685.98 MB/s.
The GAMMIX S50 Lite also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 359.01 MB/s and write at 588.32 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 1TB GAMMIX S50 Lite is capable of 380,000 IOPS when reading and 540,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 91,906 random read IOPS and 150,610 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the GAMMIX S50 Lite performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 327,669 random read IOPS and 274,664 random write IOPS.
