Sandisk X210 256GB Business Class Solid State Drive Review

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.

Like I would expect from any non-SandForce drive, the performance across the board is very similar; almost to the point where there is next no comparable difference between tests run with compressible and incompressible data.

By tweaking the firmware for longevity by trading in a small amount of sequential read and write performance, the overall drive score within Anvil’s does take a bit of a hit, although I will stress again that the workloads that this drive would experience in say a small server environment will differ quite considerably to that of a standard desktop system.