Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.
Unconditioned
Conditioned
Compressible Data
Switching between compressible and incompressible data doesn’t do much for this drive, it just keeps on performing on the same level.
Drive Comparison
For the purpose of drive comparison I use the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data fill.
Overall looking Anvil Storage Utilities isn’t a friend of the Angelbird SSD, and it places fairly low in the comparison chart. However, we see the same steady performance of the drive that the other tests also showed. So while the numbers seem a bit lower then others, the drive did great in this test too.
