Based on OCZ Arc 100 SSD design
Rumored and detailed earlier, AMD has now officially launched its newest series of Radeon branded R7 solid state drives, the Radeon R7 SSD series. Based on OCZ's Vertex 460 series SSD design with an updated Barefoot 3 M00 controller and Toshiba's 19nm MLC NAND, the Radeon R7 SSD series will have decent specifications and aim at performance market with gamers in mind.
As noted, AMD has decided to reach out to OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba-owned company, for a design of its Radeon R7 SSD series. The result is an SSD series based on OCZ's Vertex 460 SSD series but with slight improvements.
Instead of the older Barefoot 3 M10 controller used with Vertex 460 SSDs, Radeon R7 SSD series uses update Barefoot 3 M00 controller seen in recently released Vector 150 SSD series. The controller is paired up with Toshiba 19nm MLC NAND and offers performance of up to 550MB/s for read and up to 530MB/s for write, which puts it in line with OCZ's recently release Vector 150 SSD series.
The choice of slightly different NAND and improved controller also allowed AMD to raise the endurance to 30GB/day, up from 20GB/day on the Vertex 460 and down from 50GB/day on the Vector 150. It also offers four years of warranty.
AMD's Radeon R7 SSD series still uses the standard 7mm-thick 2.5-inch form factor chassis and will be shipped with 3.5-inch adapter and Acronis cloning software.
The Radeon R7 SSD series will be available in 120, 240 and 480GB capacities which should be enough for the targeted performance/gamers market. As far as the specifications go, all three models will share the same maximum read performance of up to 550MB/s while maximum sequential write will differ, ranging from 470MB/s on the 120GB model to 530MB/s on the 240GB and 480GB models.
The maximum random read IOPS performance will be set at 85k, 95k and 100k IOPS for 120GB, 240GB and 480GB models, while maximum write IOPS performance is at 90k for all three models.
The only thing that we are now missing is the official price from AMD but these should end up cheaper than OCZ's Vector 150 series and might end up with a really good value. Our review should be up soon so keep an eye on the front page.
Source: AMD.com.
As noted, AMD has decided to reach out to OCZ Storage Solutions, a Toshiba-owned company, for a design of its Radeon R7 SSD series. The result is an SSD series based on OCZ's Vertex 460 SSD series but with slight improvements.
Instead of the older Barefoot 3 M10 controller used with Vertex 460 SSDs, Radeon R7 SSD series uses update Barefoot 3 M00 controller seen in recently released Vector 150 SSD series. The controller is paired up with Toshiba 19nm MLC NAND and offers performance of up to 550MB/s for read and up to 530MB/s for write, which puts it in line with OCZ's recently release Vector 150 SSD series.
The choice of slightly different NAND and improved controller also allowed AMD to raise the endurance to 30GB/day, up from 20GB/day on the Vertex 460 and down from 50GB/day on the Vector 150. It also offers four years of warranty.
AMD's Radeon R7 SSD series still uses the standard 7mm-thick 2.5-inch form factor chassis and will be shipped with 3.5-inch adapter and Acronis cloning software.
The Radeon R7 SSD series will be available in 120, 240 and 480GB capacities which should be enough for the targeted performance/gamers market. As far as the specifications go, all three models will share the same maximum read performance of up to 550MB/s while maximum sequential write will differ, ranging from 470MB/s on the 120GB model to 530MB/s on the 240GB and 480GB models.
The maximum random read IOPS performance will be set at 85k, 95k and 100k IOPS for 120GB, 240GB and 480GB models, while maximum write IOPS performance is at 90k for all three models.
The only thing that we are now missing is the official price from AMD but these should end up cheaper than OCZ's Vector 150 series and might end up with a really good value. Our review should be up soon so keep an eye on the front page.
Source: AMD.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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