AMD Enters SSD Market in Partnership with OCZ
AMD makes an entry to the SSD market with its Radeon R7-branded SSDs.
After making CPUs and GPUs for a long time, AMD also entered the memory market with its Radeon Memory back in 2011. Now, the company is invading the storage market with a line of Radeon-branded SSDs. The new Radeon R7 series SSDs are built by OCZ and are made with Toshiba-built MLC NAND flash.
Also, rather than making the Radeon R7 SSDs a whole new product line, AMD has positioned the SSDs to fit in the OCZ product stack. The Vector 150 Series SSDs are workstation drives for professionals, the Radeon R7 series SSDs are for gamers and the Vertex 460 series are aimed at mainstre users.
The Controller aboard the Radeon R7 SSDs is a Barefoot 3 M00 controller, which in conjunction with the 19 nm Toshiba MLC flash will let it read at speeds of up to 550 MB/s and write at up to 530 MB/s. Endurance of the SSDs is rated at 30 GB per day written.
Capacities will initially range from 120 GB to 480 GB, with the 120 GB model priced at $99.99 MSRP.
It's worth noting that this SSD is not only Rade-branded, but also specifically R7. This leads us to believe that there might be an R9 series SSD in the works, or at least on the agenda.
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Honestly dont know too much about SSDs, do I dont know how quality the drive itself is, like the looks though.
If the snacks are cheap I would buy them...
In all honesty though I agree with you, though I would like cheap food.
Maybe they just want to diversify? Even though I use core i5 myself, I saw my friend's AMD CPU built computer and it is no slouch and didn't cost as much as mine did.
Me too, it really catches the eye.
Though, I would have preferred to see them coming out with their own design, leaving the manufacturing to another company (Samsung maybe), instead of plain re-badging.
Me too, it really catches the eye.
Though, I would have preferred to see them coming out with their own design, leaving the manufacturing to another company (Samsung maybe), instead of plain re-badging.
Ehh, its a start in the right direction (if such a thing exists) at least.
This is something i've tried to explain to people for 3 years now. I work with top of the line i5s/i7s and even cheepo i3's daily... and i go home to a fx8 core. There really isn't much difference. not that the end user can see anyway.