The disk OCZ Apex submitted to the torture

The PCper site published an enormous test of the SSD disk APEXES 250 GB from OCZ.

To recall, this disk has as a main advantage, in addition to its capacity, of having two onboard memory controllers in order to create an internal RAID 0 and a very significantly increase of the data flows obtained with SLC memory.
It was compared with the majority of the SSD available including the Intel X-25M and also with the Velociraptor.
In short, the results are in conformity so that one can wait a bit for this RAID controller, alas also for the marque JMICON that has the merit of being not so expensive however are limited largely by their absence of cache.
The disk proves to be very fast, outclassing all the SSD during transfers of large files where its RAID helps a lot. Only the RAID of Velociraptor does better.
On the other hand, it falls behind during the transfers of small files and proves to be significantly less good than the Intel when the number of transactions that it supports a second are measured.
To give you an idea of the impact of these entry line controllers, it has a data flow 4 times lower than the Intel to startup a machine, 3 times inferior to launch a software of everyday usage.
You will have understood that this SSD is not a bolt of lightning . On the other hand, his capacity-price ratio is in its favour (around 850€).
However there is a test missing that was not done, that of its power consumption. It should indeed be higher than that of the other SSD since it uses simultaneously twice the number components.