AS SSD:
AS SSD is a benchmark designed specifically for solid state drives. The application contains five synthetic tests used to determine the sequential and random read and write performance of a drive.
 ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB |
 Silicon Power XS70 1TB |
AS SSD also includes a copy benchmark. This test copies an ISO (two large files), program (many small files) and game (small and large files), returning the speed and duration of each.
 ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB |
 Silicon Power XS70 1TB |
HD Tune Pro 5.75:
Next, I ran a series of tests using HD Tune Pro. This hard disk utility measures a drive's performance by testing its sequential read and write speeds as well as its access time, burst rate and CPU usage. For this review, I'm also going to use it to benchmark the LEGEND 960's random read and write speeds, random access times and the number of operations per second.
 ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB - Read Benchmark |
 Silicon Power XS70 1TB - Read Benchmark |
 ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB - Write Benchmark |
 Silicon Power XS70 1TB - Write Benchmark |
The LEGEND 960 performed fairly well when benchmarked with HD Tune. The drive had average read and write speeds of 4846.7 MB/s and 2225.3 MB/s, respectively.
 ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB - Random Access Read |
 Silicon Power XS70 1TB - Random Access Read |
 ADATA LEGEND 960 1TB - Random Access Write |
 Silicon Power XS70 1TB - Random Access Write |
When reading 4KB blocks, the LEGEND 960 reached 52,994 IOPS and had an average speed of 207.008 MB/s. The drive was even faster when writing, reaching 59,787 IOPS with an average speed of 233.544 MB/s.
