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. Like OCZ’s previous solid state drives, the Apex