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 S70 240GB - Incompressible Data
Silicon Power S70 240GB - 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 S70'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 S70's performance was very similar to what we saw in our other tests. With highly compressible, repeating data, the drive was able to read at 529.35 MB/s and write at 506.52 MB/s. When tested with random data, the S70's read and write speeds dropped to 511.83 MB/s and 318.71 MB/s, respectively.
The S70 also performed very well when doing random reads and writes. With repeating data, the drive was able to read at 95.2 MB/s and write at a blazing 315.25 MB/s. Here too, the S70 took a performance hit when tested with random data. However, it was still able to write at 254.71 MB/s.
According to Silicon Power, the S70 can deliver a maximum of 86,000 IOPS when randomly writing 4K blocks. In our tests, the drive reached 80,704 IOPS with repeating data and 65,205 IOPS with random data.
