Anvil's Storage Utilities:
Anvil's Storage Utilities is another new benchmark designed with SSDs in mind. The standard storage benchmark measures a drive's performance by testing its transfer speeds, access times and IOPS.
Silicon Power S80 480GB - Incompressible Data
Silicon Power S80 480GB - Compressible Data
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 S80'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 S80's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 497.32 MB/s and write at 377.73 MB/s.
The S80 did not perform as well as I had expected when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 88.93 MB/s and write at a mere 91.1 MB/s.
According to Silicon Power, the S80 is capable of up to 80,000 IOPS when writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 22,639 random read IOPS and 23,322 random write IOPS. Increasing the queue depth had little impact on the S80's random write performance. However, with the queue depth set to 32, the drive was able to reach 36,715 random read IOPS.