OCZ Apex 120GB SSD Review

Random Access Time

To obtain the absolute, most accurate Random access time, h2benchw was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive. To run this program, one must use a DOS prompt and tell it what sections of the test to run. While one could use “h2benchw 1 -english -s -tt "harddisk test" -w test” for example and just run the seek tests, we took the more complete approach and ran the full gamout of tests and then extracted the necessary information from the text file. This is the command line argument we used “h2benchw 1 -a -! -tt "harddisk drivetest" -w drivetest”. This tells the program to write all results in english, save them in drivetest txt file, do write and read tests and do it all on drive 1 (or the second drive found, with 0 being the OS drive).


In what is becoming almost monotonous in its consistency, the OCZ Apex also has better latency than the award winning G.Skill Titan. However, please remember that the difference is well within the margin of error.

Improved or not the Apex still cannot hold a candle to the X25’s performance. However, in real world situations the difference is so small as to be moot in all but the most insane of multitasking environments.

SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second and have been averaged out from the scores of 4 test runs.

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Well, these results were surprising….or at least they would have if you have skipped all the previous test results. For everyone else, yes this drive once again outperforms all but the X25 and even here it is inching closer and closer to that gold standard. Impressive