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 SX8200'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 SX8200's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 2474.07 MB/s and write at 1141.83 MB/s.
The SX8200 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 217.74 MB/s and write at 689.95 MB/s.
According to ADATA, the 240GB XPG SX8200 is capable of up to 200,000 IOPS when reading and 240,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 55,742 random read IOPS and 176,626 random write IOPS. As with most drives, the SX8200 performed better at higher queue depths. With the queue depth set to 32, it reached 135,452 random read IOPS and 183,616 random write IOPS.
