FC-Test Results

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Our FC-Test benchmark is split into three parts. First is a write test involving the creation of a file pattern similar to common files such as MP3s or large video files. Once created on the drive, we then copy the file pattern from the drive back to a different folder on the same drive producing a combined read/write test. Finally we test the read speed of the drive by performing FC-Test's read test of the files copied.

For our benchmarks, we're using both the MP3 pattern, consisting of two hundred and seventy small files totalling 0.99GB, and the the ISO pattern, consisting of three large files totalling 1.6GB in size. We feel these file patterns represent the most common files people will be frequently copying to and from an drive, and can be interpreted as as close to a real world file transfer test as possible.


While write speed is still an area where MLC SSDs usually lose out to mechanical drives, the OCZ Apex 120GB is a real disappointment when writing our three large files to its memory, clocking in an average time of 35.8 seconds - a good four seconds slower than the similar G.Skill Titan. It's also worth mentioning that to get this average we had to run the tests literally dozens of times, with the OCZ Apex being very sporadic. Some runs would take over 45 seconds to complete, while others were more in line with the results of the G.Skill Titan.


Copy speed is much improved though, with a time just behind that of the G.Skill Titan and noticeably faster than the trailed mechanical drives and Intel's X25-M.


Read speed is inline with what we'd expect from the drive design, reading the 1.6GB of un-cached files in a nippy 8.3 seconds, just a fraction of a second faster than the G.Skill.