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 XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB |
 Crucial P5 Plus 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 XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB |
 Crucial P5 Plus 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 GAMMIX S70 Blade's random read and write speeds, random access times and the number of operations per second.
 ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB - Read Benchmark |
 Crucial P5 Plus 1TB - Read Benchmark |
 ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB - Write Benchmark |
 Crucial P5 Plus 1TB - Write Benchmark |
The GAMMIX S70 Blade performed relatively well when benchmarked with HD Tune. The drive had average read and write speeds of 6030.2 MB/s and 2664.2 MB/s, respectively.
 ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB - Random Access Read |
 Crucial P5 Plus 1TB - Random Access Read |
 ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1TB - Random Access Write |
 Crucial P5 Plus 1TB - Random Access Write |
When writing 4KB blocks, the GAMMIX S70 Blade reached 51,101 IOPS and had an average speed of 199.614 MB/s. The drive was even faster when reading, reaching 53,728 IOPS with an average speed of 209.878 MB/s.
