AMD is partnering with OCZ, to come out with the Radeon R7 series of solid state drives. According to AMD, it decided to go with the Radeon R7 naming convention after its graphics cards from that segment, which provide good performance as well as good value.
The AMD Radeon R7 series SSDs will be stacked between the workstation class OCZ Vertex 150 series and the more mainstream Vertex 460 series SSDs. As expected, it is targetted at the gaming community and is rated at and endurance of 30GB/day. The sequential read/write speeds are rated at 550MB/s and 530MB/s respectively.
Radeon R7 series SSDs will make use of Toshiba A19 MLC NAND memory. It belongs to the Toggle mode NAND category. The Barefoot 3 SSD controller which is generally seen in OCZ SSDs will also be seen on the Radeon R7 series SSDs. It will come in a 2.5-inch form factor along with a 3.5-inch adapter. The z-height is around 7mm. Acronis True Image HD cloning software will come bundled with the Radeon R7 drives.
It will come in capacities such as 120GB, 240GB and 480GB. The maximum random read/write IOPS for the 480GB model is rated at 100,000 and 90,000 IOPS respectively. We will have to run the SSD through our test process to verify the claim.
Pricing details and India availability details are not yet out. We will update them accordingly.
