AMD Enters SSD Market in Partnership with OCZ

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.

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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  • red77star
    Wow that is weird. Looks like AMD might be selling their own computers since they make everything to put together such. CPU, motherboard, GPU, Memory, SSD.
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  • TechyInAZ
    Interesting, are they doing this because they are loosing the CPU battle?
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  • redgarl
    Simply... why, sometime I am asking myself the question. I love AMD but there is no gain of putting an AMD sticker on OEMs.
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  • Gam3r01
    Though I'm not crazy about the logo slapped into the middle, it would likely be hidden in a drive bay anyway, I do like the overall pattern on it.
    Honestly dont know too much about SSDs, do I dont know how quality the drive itself is, like the looks though.
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  • Shneiky
    I feel so bad about the ATI guys. Back in the old days, Radeon was a name to be proud of. Radeon RAM, Radeon SSD, what is next? Radeon "Gaming" snacks and "Radeon Peanuts - Gamer's performance edition"....
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  • Gam3r01
    13993468 said:
    I feel so bad about the ATI guys. Back in the old days, Radeon was a name to be proud of. Radeon RAM, Radeon SSD, what is next? Radeon "Gaming" snacks and "Radeon Peanuts - Gamer's performance edition"....

    If the snacks are cheap I would buy them...
    In all honesty though I agree with you, though I would like cheap food.
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  • Darth_Kaar
    I like the idea that AMD is trying to diversify its offer. Especially with good quality designs.
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  • Junit151
    If it looks like that render (probz won't) I will pick two up to go in the bottom SSD mounts of my black/red H440. Color schemes FTW.
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  • dovah-chan
    I saw this on newegg just seconds eariler and soon as I came to toms I'm like wow I didn't notice that on the front page earlier :o
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  • The_Icon
    Interesting, are they doing this because they are loosing the CPU battle?

    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.
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