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 SX6000 Pro'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 SX6000 Pro's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1985.95 MB/s and write at 1457.39 MB/s.
The SX6000 Pro's random read and write performance was hit and miss when tested with Iometer. While the drive was able to write at an impressive 579.45 MB/s, its read speed averaged out at only 169.06 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 512GB SX6000 Pro is capable of 250,000 IOPS when reading and 240,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 43,280 random read IOPS and 148,341 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the SX6000 Pro performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 151,483 random read IOPS and 152,516 random write IOPS.
