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 XS2000'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 XS2000's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 1,965.35 MB/s and write at 1,694.41 MB/s.
The XS2000 wasn't one of the faster drives we've tested when it came to random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 94.44 MB/s and write at 72.36 MB/s.
Kingston really doesn't say what the XS2000 is capable of in regards to IOPS. In our tests, the drive reached 24,178 random read IOPS and 18,525 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the XS2000's random write performance. However, with four threads and the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 53,743 random read IOPS.
