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 SX8200 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 SX8200 Pro's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2468.54 MB/s and write at 2124.21 MB/s.
The SX8200 Pro also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 284.02 MB/s and write at 566.3 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 512GB SX8200 Pro is capable of 390,000 IOPS when reading and 380,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 72,708 random read IOPS and 144,974 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the SX8200 Pro performed better at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 357,897 random read IOPS and 311,101 random write IOPS.
