OCZ Apex 120GB SSD Review

Real World Data Transfers

No matter how good a synthetic benchmark like IOMeter, it can not really tell you how your hard drive will perform in “real world” situations. All of us here at Hardware Canucks strive to give you the best, most complete picture of a review item’s true capabilities and to this end we will be running timed data transfers to give you a general idea of how its performance relates to real life use. To help replicate worse case scenarios we will transfer a 4.00GB contiguous RAR file and a folder containg 49 subfolders with a total 2108 files varying in length from 20mb to 1kb (1.00 GB total).

Testing will include transfer too and transferring from the devices, timing each process individually to provide an approximate Read and Write performance. To then stress the dive even more we will then make a copy of the large file to another portion of the same drive and then repeat the process with the small one. This will test the drive to its limits as it will be reading and writing simultaneously. Here is what we found.


When it comes to copying large and small files from the Apex, its scores are right up there with the best. It is only when we look at copying files to the Apex or (worse still) to itself that the inherent limitations of the JM602 and JMB390 come into play. When this happens the abilities of this drive become severely limited and its performance falls through the floor.