OCZ Apex 60GB SSD

BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
edited March 2009 in Hardware
I installed my new 60GB OCZ Apex SSD last night. Getting the drive set-up correctly took a little while, but the actual Windows XP install on it was blazing fast. I don't have benchmarks yet. I do think it's safe to say that this sucker is worthwhile. The feel of the system is much quicker.

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Completely agree. This drive is very fast and stutter-free. I've been tooling around with it for a while now. :)
  • addphiladdphil
    edited February 2009
    I didn't notice any difference between my Raptor and a tweaked Apex Drive.
    XP won't install or boot faster. Copying a file to the Apex drive in the background will create more studder than doing it on a Velociraptor.

    Good thing is that Vanguard will lauch about 30 % faster on the ssd. Most other games will take the same to launch.

    Im still considering returning it and buy me another Raptor to hook in a Raid 0 although they say it won't give much more RL Performance either.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    How tweaked, though? Did you perform partition offsetting?
  • addphiladdphil
    edited March 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    How tweaked, though? Did you perform partition offsetting?

    I applied the tweaks according to http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50463.

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    UT 3 Demo Level Loading: same loadtime as VR.
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