Conclusion

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Judging by the results we've gathered on the previous pages, it looks like OCZ did a good job with the combining of Toshiba's A19 nanometer MLC NAND with their Barefoot 3 M00 controller. A closer look at the performance results reveals that the Radeon R7 SSD with 240 Gigabyte capacity is definitely a quick drive.   

Checking the the performance numbers we measured up to 541 Megabyte per second for sequential reads and 542 Megabyte per second for sequential writes. Regarding random throughput the Radeon R7 SSD has been able to deliver 77'300 IOPS while performing random write operations and 92'900 IOPS performing random reads. Since the Radeon R7 SSD is based on a OCZ's Barefoot 3 M00 controller there will be no performance drops when transferring compressed data and also sustained as well as steady state performance are on the level you want them to be.

A closer look at pricing reveals, that the Radeon R7 120GB costs 74 Euro, the 240GB model accounts for 122 Euro and the 480GB drive sells for 195 Euro at launch. Usually prices drop by 10 to 20 during the first month after release. Once that happened AMD definitely has a SSD in its portfolio that sells at a reasonable price point and offers really good performance.

Recommendation

Should you be looking for a quick 240 Gigabyte SSD with reasonable reliability figures, then you should definitely consider the AMD Radeon R7 SSD.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 8 - Random write IOPS
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 9 - Random read IOPS
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 10 - QD1/4/8/16/32 Performance
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 11 - Conclusion
Page 6 - Random write KByte/s

Authors: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch