OCZ Apex Series 120GB SATA II SSD

Name: OCZ Apex Series 120GB SATA II SSD - Page 9
Brand: OCZ

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 12, 2009, 10:01 AM EDT

Performance Summary: Summarizing the performance of OCZ's Apex Series SSD is rather straight-forward. The OCZ Apex Series SSD trailed the Intel X25-M is every benchmark in regard to Read performance, and generally trailed Intel's offering in write performance as well. In some instances, however, namely ATTO and HD Tach, the OCZ Apex drive came out on top in regard to write performance. In relation to the other OCZ and SuperTalent drives we tested, the OCZ Apex Series SSD was clearly faster than the other drives overall.

After rebates, the OCZ Apex Series SSDs can currently be had for $173, $299, and $769, for the 60GB, 120GB, and 250GB models, respectively. In the current market, considering the performance of the 120GB model we tested, that makes the OCZ Apex Series drives a good value in light of its competition. As we saw in the benchmarks, the OCZ Apex Series drive performs very well. It was the second fastest drive we tested, falling behind only Intel's X25-M. The OCZ Apex drive was much faster than all of the other drives, however. And despite being about $100 less than Intel's 80GB offering, the OCZ Apex drive sports 50% more capacity. The SSD market is still in constant state of flux as new drives are introduces, older models drop in price, and higher capacities become available, but all things considered OCZ's Apex Series drives seem like a good deal to us. Cost per gigabyte is still astronomical in comparison to magnetic media, but that disparity will continue to diminish over time. The OCZ Apex Series SSDs are proof of that.


Strong Performance Relatively Good Value High Capacities For An SSD	Not As Fast As Intel's X25-M High Cost Per GB

Tags: Hard Drive, SSD, OCZ, Storage, drive, Solid State Disk

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com