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 SE920'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 SE920's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2964.37 MB/s and write at 2806.79 MB/s.
For an external SSD, the SE920 performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 422.96 MB/s and write at 979.06 MB/s.
ADATA really doesn't say what the SE920 is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 108,279 random read IOPS and 250,639 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the SE920 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With four threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 631,642 random read IOPS and 605,683 random write IOPS.
