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 XS70'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 XS70's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. The drive was able to read at 7023.75 MB/s and write at 5606.46 MB/s.
The XS70 also performed fairly well when doing random reads and writes. In our tests, the drive was able to read at 439.85 MB/s and write at 604.76 MB/s.
Silicon Power really doesn't say what the XS70 is capable of in regards to IOPS. With two threads and a queue depth of three, the drive reached 112,602 random read IOPS and 154,819 random write IOPS.
As with most drives, the XS70 performed better with more threads and at higher queue depths. With sixteen threads and the queue depth set to 32, it reached 832,851 random read IOPS and 687,638 random write IOPS.
