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 S70 Blade'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 S70 Blade's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 7098.11 MB/s and write at 6116.38 MB/s.
The GAMMIX S70 Blade also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 443.53 MB/s and write at 641.80 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 1TB GAMMIX S70 Blade is capable of 740,000 IOPS when reading and writing 4K blocks. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 113,544 random read IOPS and 164,300 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the GAMMIX S70 Blade performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 765,629 random read IOPS and 610,207 random write IOPS.
