OCZ Apex 120GB SSD Review

by AkG     |     March 23, 2009

Crystal DiskMark


CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds; and allows you to set the number of tests iterations to run. We left the number of tests at 5. When all 5 tests for a given section were run Crystal DiskMark then averages out all 5 numbers to give a result for that section.

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If we had any doubts about this drive being anything but a highly tweaked and refined variation on the standard reference design….this puts those doubts to bed. In every single benchmark this Apex drive has beaten the Titan, and Crystal DiskMark is no exception. Heck, not only have they refined it, but this RAID 0 multi controller design is now actually better than the last generation single controller Samsung design.


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We were not expecting miracles, as even OCZ’s engineers can’t do the impossible, but these numbers are an improvement from what we have seen in the past. It's just too bad this drive still has feet of clay when it comes to small 4k chunk writes.
 
 
 

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