AMD Radeon R7 SSD Launch - Gaming SSD to go with your Graphics Card and Memory

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Prepare yourself for a new level of performance and revel in a storage experience second to none with superior gaming, system responsiveness, and application performance. Using cutting-edge SSD technology designed with enthusiasts in mind, the Radeon™ R7 Series SSDs meets the demands of gamers and graphics-hungry power users for fast system boot-ups, insane speeds, and scorching fast load times. Now there is finally a storage solution to match the rest of your high-end system components for an unmatched gaming and multimedia experience.

These 3 Drives have now been officially launched and will be available in a couple of weeks time. You can pre-order the SSD's now.


AMD Radeon R7 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (RADEON-R7SSD-120G) @ £74.99 inc VAT

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The Ultimate Storage for your Gaming Desktop or Notebook PC
Prepare yourself for a new level of performance and revel in a storage experience second to none with superior gaming, system responsiveness, and application performance. Using cutting-edge SSD technology designed with enthusiasts in mind, the Radeon™ R7 Series SSDs meets the demands of gamers and graphics-hungry power users for fast system boot-ups, insane speeds, and scorching fast load times. Now there is finally a storage solution to match the rest of your high-end system components for an unmatched gaming and multimedia experience.

Product Features

  • Designed to deliver the ultimate storage solution for gamers and graphics-hungry power users.
  • Proprietary OCZ Barefoot 3 controller technology delivers superior performance and endurance
  • Latest generation A19nm flash delivers a high performance yet cost-effective upgrade
  • Advanced suite of NAND flash management keeps your drive at higher sustained performance over the long term
  • Putting emphasis on client workload endurance, rated at 30GB/day of host writes for 4 years*
  • Excels in both incompressible and compressible data types such as multimedia, encrypted data, ZIP files and software
  • Bundled with a 3.5-inch desktop adapter bracket and Acronis® True Image™ HD cloning software to easily transfer games, programs, and data from your old hard drive
  • Sleek alloy housing offers slimmer 7mm z-height for compatibility with the ultra-thin notebooks


PERFORMANCE 120GB

  • Max Read: 550
  • Max Write: 470
  • FOB Random Read IOPS (4K QD32): 85,000
  • FOB Random Write IOPS (4K QD32): 90,000
  • Steady State Random Write IOPS (4K QD32): 12,000


PHYSICAL

  • Usable Capacities (IDEMA): 120GB
  • NAND Components: Toshiba A19nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
  • Interface: Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/s (SATA III)
  • Form Factor: 2.5 inch, 7mm height
  • NAND Controller: Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00
  • Dimensions: 99.70 x 69.75 x 7.00 mm
  • Drive Weight: 115g


RELIABILITY / COMPATIBILITY

  • Data Path Protection: BCH ECC corrects up to 44 random bits/1KB
  • MTBF: 2.3 million hours
  • Encryption: 256-bit AES-compliant
  • Product Health Monitoring: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) Support
  • Endurance: Rated for 30GB/day of host writes for 4 years under typical client workloads
  • Serial ATA: Fully compliant with Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.2. Fully compliant with ATA/ATAPI-8 Standard Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
  • Power Requirements: Standard SATA Power Connector


Only £74.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW


AMD Radeon R7 Series 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (RADEON-R7SSD-240G) @ £124.99 inc VAT

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The Ultimate Storage for your Gaming Desktop or Notebook PC
Prepare yourself for a new level of performance and revel in a storage experience second to none with superior gaming, system responsiveness, and application performance. Using cutting-edge SSD technology designed with enthusiasts in mind, the Radeon™ R7 Series SSDs meets the demands of gamers and graphics-hungry power users for fast system boot-ups, insane speeds, and scorching fast load times. Now there is finally a storage solution to match the rest of your high-end system components for an unmatched gaming and multimedia experience.

Product Features

  • Designed to deliver the ultimate storage solution for gamers and graphics-hungry power users.
  • Proprietary OCZ Barefoot 3 controller technology delivers superior performance and endurance
  • Latest generation A19nm flash delivers a high performance yet cost-effective upgrade
  • Advanced suite of NAND flash management keeps your drive at higher sustained performance over the long term
  • Putting emphasis on client workload endurance, rated at 30GB/day of host writes for 4 years*
  • Excels in both incompressible and compressible data types such as multimedia, encrypted data, ZIP files and software
  • Bundled with a 3.5-inch desktop adapter bracket and Acronis® True Image™ HD cloning software to easily transfer games, programs, and data from your old hard drive
  • Sleek alloy housing offers slimmer 7mm z-height for compatibility with the ultra-thin notebooks


PERFORMANCE 240GB

  • Max Read: 550
  • Max Write: 530
  • FOB Random Read IOPS (4K QD32): 95,000
  • FOB Random Write IOPS (4K QD32): 90,000
  • Steady State Random Write IOPS (4K QD32): 20,000


PHYSICAL

  • Usable Capacities (IDEMA): 240GB
  • NAND Components: Toshiba A19nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
  • Interface: Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/s (SATA III)
  • Form Factor: 2.5 inch, 7mm height
  • NAND Controller: Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00
  • Dimensions: 99.70 x 69.75 x 7.00 mm
  • Drive Weight: 115g


RELIABILITY / COMPATIBILITY

  • Data Path Protection: BCH ECC corrects up to 44 random bits/1KB
  • MTBF: 2.3 million hours
  • Encryption: 256-bit AES-compliant
  • Product Health Monitoring: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) Support
  • Endurance: Rated for 30GB/day of host writes for 4 years under typical client workloads
  • Serial ATA: Fully compliant with Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.2. Fully compliant with ATA/ATAPI-8 Standard Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
  • Power Requirements: Standard SATA Power Connector


Only £124.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW


AMD Radeon R7 Series 480GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (RADEON-R7SSD-480G) @ £224.99 inc VAT

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The Ultimate Storage for your Gaming Desktop or Notebook PC

Prepare yourself for a new level of performance and revel in a storage experience second to none with superior gaming, system responsiveness, and application performance. Using cutting-edge SSD technology designed with enthusiasts in mind, the Radeon™ R7 Series SSDs meets the demands of gamers and graphics-hungry power users for fast system boot-ups, insane speeds, and scorching fast load times. Now there is finally a storage solution to match the rest of your high-end system components for an unmatched gaming and multimedia experience.

Product Features

  • Designed to deliver the ultimate storage solution for gamers and graphics-hungry power users.
  • Proprietary OCZ Barefoot 3 controller technology delivers superior performance and endurance
  • Latest generation A19nm flash delivers a high performance yet cost-effective upgrade
  • Advanced suite of NAND flash management keeps your drive at higher sustained performance over the long term
  • Putting emphasis on client workload endurance, rated at 30GB/day of host writes for 4 years*
  • Excels in both incompressible and compressible data types such as multimedia, encrypted data, ZIP files and software
  • Bundled with a 3.5-inch desktop adapter bracket and Acronis® True Image™ HD cloning software to easily transfer games, programs, and data from your old hard drive
  • Sleek alloy housing offers slimmer 7mm z-height for compatibility with the ultra-thin notebooks


PERFORMANCE 480GB

  • Max Read: 550
  • Max Write: 530
  • FOB Random Read IOPS (4K QD32): 100,000
  • FOB Random Write IOPS (4K QD32): 90,000
  • Steady State Random Write IOPS (4K QD32): 23,000


PHYSICAL

  • Usable Capacities (IDEMA): 480GB
  • NAND Components: Toshiba A19nm Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
  • Interface: Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/s (SATA III)
  • Form Factor: 2.5 inch, 7mm height
  • NAND Controller: Indilinx Barefoot 3 M00
  • Dimensions: 99.70 x 69.75 x 7.00 mm
  • Drive Weight: 115g


RELIABILITY / COMPATIBILITY

  • Data Path Protection: BCH ECC corrects up to 44 random bits/1KB
  • MTBF: 2.3 million hours
  • Encryption: 256-bit AES-compliant
  • Product Health Monitoring: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) Support
  • Endurance: Rated for 30GB/day of host writes for 4 years under typical client workloads
  • Serial ATA: Fully compliant with Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.2. Fully compliant with ATA/ATAPI-8 Standard Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
  • Power Requirements: Standard SATA Power Connector


Only £224.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
While they perform much better than i was expecting the pricing is to close to the 850pro and to far from the MX100/840 EVO to make me condsider the Radeon drives over the aforementioned Samsung's and Crucial drives.

Still good to see OCZ back up with big two.

On a related note are Overclockers considering stocking the Hynix drives? as they look interesting as well on the bang for buck scale
 
Squid said:
Is the OCZ Barefoot 3 controller before or after the toshiba buyout?
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Before.

It's slightly annoying that these R7 drives are slower and yet more expensive than a load of basically better drives. You'd at least think they'd attempt to be price competitive with the SSD's they're actually in competition with, instead of claiming to to be near the top.

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For the same price as the 120GB model you can get a 256GB MX100. The latter may be slower on paper but in reality you will benefit far more from the extra storage capcity in the real world.
 
JediFragger said:
AMD, always finding new ways to lose money :D
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Yea...they have mistaken themselves for Nvidia...:p

If it was Nvidia who pulled this it could work (since they are plenty of people want everything "green" :p)...but them? Not gonna happen, considering not even Intel's brand SSD could compete with the like of Samsung and Crucial...
 
Not coming in at a great price point to be honest. I guess these are all about the fanboys and people wanting a certain brand to "fit" their system. Better drives available for less money and they're OCZ under the hood which doesn't exactly inspire confidence! Performance is pretty good mind you.
 
So they are not the fastest, not the cheapest and don't offer much bang for buck....what exactly is the point of these again?
 
Columbo said:
So they are not the fastest, not the cheapest and don't offer much bang for buck....what exactly is the point of these again?
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Pretty much sums it up. AMD, Corsair, and OCZ/Tosh have all released new SSDs this past two weeks, and not a single one of them can compete on features/performance vs price against either the Sammy 840/850 Evo's (even without RAPID mode)

I don't see the point?
 
Hmm disappointed with OC's prices a few reputablle PC publications state that prices are meant to start from £59.99 for the 120Gb version
 
GavinG said:
Hmm disappointed with OC's prices a few reputablle PC publications state that prices are meant to start from £59.99 for the 120Gb version
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Please let me know who these reputable PC publications are as our pricing is based on the cost price provided by AMD. I can then go back to them and ask them why we are unable to hit this pricing you have seen. I would love to be able to provide them to you for this price.
 
abarrass said:
Please let me know who these reputable PC publications are as our pricing is based on the cost price provided by AMD. I can then go back to them and ask them why we are unable to hit this pricing you have seen. I would love to be able to provide them to you for this price.
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Both AMD and OCZ have press releases dated 19/08/2014 stating prices will start from $99 for the 120Gb version.

PCGameware.co.uk state price as from £59.99
AnandTech Portal from $99
Techpowerup $99

I'm not sure if all this means it will be available in the uk at that price as that isn't stated. But hope you can look at it in further detail. Can't link them as im on phone atm
 
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