AS SSD:
AS SSD is a relatively new 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.
 Silicon Power S70 240GB |
 Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB |
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.
 Silicon Power S70 240GB |
 Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB |
HD Tune Pro 4.61:
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 S70's random read and write speeds, random access times and the number of operations per second.
 Silicon Power S70 240GB - HD Tune Read Benchmark |
 Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB - HD Tune Read Benchmark |
 Silicon Power S70 240GB - HD Tune Write Benchmark |
 Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB - HD Tune Write Benchmark |
The S70 performed very well when benchmarked with HD Tune. The drive had average read and write speeds of 490.2 MB/s and 442.8 MB/s, respectively, and a burst rate of more than 369 MB/s when reading.
 Silicon Power S70 240GB - HD Tune Random Access Read |
 Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB - HD Tune Random Access Read |
 Silicon Power S70 240GB - HD Tune Random Access Write |
 Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB - HD Tune Random Access Write |
The S70 didn't disappoint when doing random reads and writes. When writing 4KB blocks, the drive reached 22,317 IOPS and had an average speed of 87.178 MB/s. The S70 was slightly faster when reading, reaching 22,439 IOPS with an average speed of 87.653 MB/s.
