ADATA Premier Pro SP920 256GB 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.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

As Anvil’s gives us a wider impression as to how the drive is performing we can see some fairly strong results on the 4k and 32k sectors with speeds that are heads above the competition.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison I use the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data fill.

Surprisingly the 920 appears in the middle of the Anvil’s results table although I would put part of this down to the short test time at each file size.