Apex 3 Series 128GB SSDApex 3 Series 128GB SSD is a disk. This product is part of the Apex series and is available from A-Data, Apacer, Corsair, Crucial, Intel, Kingston, OCZ, Patriot, Samsung, and Super Talent. The Apex 3 Series 128GB SSD has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.
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Global Resultsmjbommar-27656-31398-23683 - Tests on Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, AMD Phenom II X3 720, ATI Radeon HD 3200, ASRock, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400, ATI Radeon X1600, Gigabyte . GA-MA790XT-UD4P, Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100
anon-18978-19145-11879 - Tests on Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, AMD Phenom II X3 720, ATI Radeon HD 3200, ASRock, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400, ATI Radeon X1600, Gigabyte . GA-MA790XT-UD4P, Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100
jason-1195-15464-28027 - Tests on Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, AMD Phenom II X3 720, ATI Radeon HD 3200, ASRock, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400, ATI Radeon X1600, Gigabyte . GA-MA790XT-UD4P
me-10790-6191-19767 - Tests on Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 9.04, AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800, NVIDIA C51PV, ASUS M2NPV-VM, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400
michael-23540-28957-28437 - Tests on Ubuntu 9.04, Intel Core i7 920, GeForce 9800 GTX, ASRock X58 Super, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400
anon-25425-6568-19960 - Tests on SUSE LINUX 11.1, Ubuntu 9.04, Intel Pentium M 1.50GHz, Intel Mobile 915GM, IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400
jason-1195-15464-28027 - Tests on Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, AMD Phenom II X3 720, ATI Radeon HD 3200, ASRock, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400
maes-29535-27625-11129 - Tests on Debian 5.0, Ubuntu 9.04, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400, ATI Radeon HD 3850, MSI MS-7280, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400
test1 - Tests on Ubuntu 9.04, Intel Core 2 Duo P8600, Quadro FX 770M, Dell Precision M4400
Phoronix InformationSwiftech H20-220 APEX Ultra: Swiftech has come out with a new revision to their H20-APEX water cooling kit and is named the APEX Ultra with its Apogee waterblock and new MCRES-Micro reservoir. For today's review, we are experimenting with the new H20-220 kit that is designed for high-end usage and had no problems pushing the CPU past the 4GHz marker.
Industry Reviewshothardware.com: The solid state drive, or SSD, market is incredibly hot at the moment, with a constant influx of new products that seem to leapfrog previous offerings at every turn. No one has been able to overtake Intel's X25 series of SSDs in terms of overall performance just yet, but the SSDs available from many other companies today are clearly superior to the previous generation. The latest offering to land on the HotHardware test bench is the OCZ Apex Series SATA II SSD.
legitreviews.com: Overall, the performance of the Corsair Performance 3 Series of drives is very good. Hitting 410 MB/s reads and 210 MB/s writes is certainly a step up from previous versions but the SATA 6Gbps ceiling is much higher so there's ample room for improvement. RAID 0 kicks it up to 830 MB/s and 400 MB/s read/writes but most users don't want the hassle or extra expense this brings.
legitreviews.com: The Kingston SSDNow V Series should be of interest to consumers due to its price versus value. When we first found out that the Kingston SSDNow V Series was using the JMicron JMF602 controller we thought the drive would suffer from stutters like many of the early SSDs did with the same problematic controller.
bigbruin.com: The Performance Upgrade Kit is a great way to purchase the Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 128GB SSD. Not only do you get the drive, but you get an external enclosure, mounting rails, and additional cables to allow you to connect your new SSD to just about any system.
techgage.com: Like so many other memory vendors on the market, Kingston offers a wide array of solid-state disks for your perusal. For the low-end segment, it has the SSDNow V series, which at current time offer the best GB/$ on the market. We're taking a look at the latest release here, combining a recent JMicron controller with Toshiba NAND.
bit-tech.net: Value wise the Apex is also a little disappointing. While we appreciate that cutting edge tech always carries a premium, the cost per gigabyte of the Apex at 2.87 in comparison to the G.Skill Titans 1.83 doesnt make it as appealing (if you can ever call that sort of price per Gigabyte appealing!), although its still a lot better than the 4.50 per Gigabyte Intel charges for its 80GB X25-M. If youre genuinely thinking about splashing this sort of cash on an SSD though, rather than opt for the OCZ Apex 120GB SSD, you might as well go the whole hog and grab the G.Skill, which packs more well rounded overall performance and more than twice the capacity for just 125 more! That might sound like a lot, but in the world of SSDs it really is worth it, especially if youre considering using the drive as a boot disk for a high end system after all, you can never have too much hard drive space. While the OCZ Apex 120GB is still an admirable step up from the previous generation of OCZ SS
OCZ Apex 120GB SSD reviews are also available at: driverheaven.net.
guru3d.com: The year 2011 was quite complex in SSD matters. The industry finally made a move towards SATA3 (6 Gbps) and with that arrived a lot of new controllers and thus SSDs. Earlier in the year the most promising SSDs where based on SandForce 2281 controllers. Unfortunately for SandForce, they got haunted and plagued by firmware issues forcing people to reflash their SSDs, and that's just not ok...
Additional Apex 3 Series 128GB SSD reviews: Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD, Patriot TorqX 128GB SATA SSD, A-Data AS596B-128GM-C 128GB SSD, Kingston HyperX MAX USB 3.0 128GB External SSD, Kingston SSDNow V100 128GB SSD, Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB Solid State Disk, and Intel SSD 520 Series.
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