AMD Enters SSD Market in Partnership with OCZ

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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.

 

 

Source :

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ssd-radeon-r7-ocz,27483.html