Real world copy tests

We will now conduct a few real world copy tests. These tests simulate what real people do with their drives. We will be conducting writing tests, using two large single files and a multiple file copy of various file sizes.

We should point out that this is not a scientific way of measuring performance. These timings were taken with a stop watch; we have however ensured that the reading drive is well able to supply a data stream to our writing drive, which is high enough not to be slowing down the performance of the writing drive.

We will once again be comparing the obtained results with our comparison drive’s results. We will present the results in the form of graphs and tables.

Multiple file copy writing test

For this test we copied the Nero Burning Rom install folder from our review PC’s C: drive (OCZ Technology Core series V2 RAID 0 array) to the OCZ Technology Apex series 120GB SSD and our other comparison drives.

Our test copy contained 1,772 files of various sizes with a combined capacity of 306MB.

The OCZ Technology Apex series RAID 0 was the fastest drive when writing our “small files” test. The single Apex series drive also put in a good show.

Single large file writing test (4.37GB)

For this test we used a single DVD5 ISO file which had been copied to the C: drive of our review PC. The file was then copied to the OCZ Technology Apex series 120GB SSD and our other comparison drives.

The OCZ Technology Apex series RAID 0 array was by some margin, the fastest drive. The single Apex drive once again performed very well indeed.

For this test we used a single DVD9 ISO file which had been copied to the C: drive of our review PC. The file was then copied to the OCZ Technology Apex series 120GB SSD and our comparison drives.

Once again the OCZ Technology Apex series RAID 0 array was the fastest drive by some margin and, once again the Apex series single drive performed extremely well.

Summary

Once again, our copy tests expose how fast these OCZ Technology Apex series drives really are.

Vista start-up and closedown

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For these tests, we simply used a stop watch and tested the amount of time taken for a full installation of Vista to boot to the “Vista welcome” screen and, then timed how long was taken to close the PC down from the Vista “shutdown” option in the start menu.

In the case of the start up test, the timings were started once the RAID card had initialised. We do however point out, that the RAID card has to initialise before any of our tested drives could start to boot the operating system.

No surprises here. The OCZ Technology Apex series SSD drives performed extremely well.

This concludes our review. To read the conclusion, click the link below….