AMD Radeon R7 SSD line-up goes standard

AMD officially launched it is first ever "SSDs" & all three are part of AMD’s Radeon R7 SSD line.

While they feature AMD system, the drives are actually manufactured by OCZ. We originally got to know about AMD’s SSD plans back in May.

• Information About Toshiba NAND, OCZ

This Radeon R7 SSD line-up currently is made of just three main-drives. AMD is about to sell 120GB, 240GB as well as 480GB drives.

AMD is assuring first class performance, read speeds with 545MB/s and write-speed to 530MB/s. The drives are designed for 100, 000 read IOPS and Ninety-Thousands write IOPS. They're using the Barefoot 3 controller and also Toshiba’s A19 NAND. Electric power consumption is ranked at 0. 6W-2. 7W.

Roman Kyrychynskyi, director of memory, AMD Said : With all the new AMD Radeon R7 Series SSDs powered by outstanding OCZ The Storage Devices IP, we bring that reputation on the SSD market with some drives that offer an ideal and marvelous combination of performance atm, reliability and affordability, This is superbly awesome for gamers building or upgrading a rig.

• Can Radeon R7 SSDs present competitive pricing?

AMD can be pricing the entry-level 120GB unit at $100, which is not actually like the top deal out at this time there. A number regarding 120GB/128GB drives together with similar performance will be available for 10-20 percent lower price than all time.

It remains to get aware of whether the prices will go down if the drives become widely available. AMD also gives you guys a four-year warranty that assumes users will write as much as 30GB everyday. Most users will not even ratio that figure of 30GB P/day.