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 SX8000'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 SX8000's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1952.76 MB/s and write at 1105.29 MB/s.
The SX8000 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 219.64 MB/s and write at 676.15 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 256GB XPG SX8000 is capable of up to 85,000 IOPS when reading and 140,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 56,228 random read IOPS and 173,094 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the SX8000 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 111,064 random read IOPS and 183,800 random write IOPS.
