Tuesday, August 5th 2014

AMD Readies Radeon R7 Branded Client SSDs

AMD's Radeon brand is turning out to be its only hope in capturing high-end gaming PC sales. The brand now covers AMD's high-performance GPUs, system memory modules, and now, client SSDs. The company is giving final touches to three client SSD models in the 2.5-inch SATA form-factor, bearing the Radeon R7 brand, featuring capacities of 120 GB, 240 GB, and 480 GB.

All three feature SATA 6 Gb/s interface, and offer sequential read speeds as high as 550 MB/s, sequential writes of up to 470 MB/s on the 120 GB variant; and up to 530 MB/s on both the 240 GB and 480 GB ones. The three offer 4K random access throughput of up to 85,000 IOPS, 95,000 IOPS, and 100,000 IOPS, respectively; with 4K QD32 steady-state throughput of 12,000 IOPS, 20,000 IOPS, and 23,000 IOPS, respectively. The three are based on OCZ's Indilinx Barefoot 3 processor, driving Toshiba-made 19 nm MLC NAND flash chips. The three will be formally launched on the 13th of August, 2014.
Source: WCCFTech
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46 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon R7 Branded Client SSDs

#26
HumanSmoke
john_Who is accusing Intel????
My bad then. From your post it parses as you think Intel is cutting out its partners
john_
MassmanAnd so they continue to alienate industry partners ...
You mean like what Intel did with it's own SSDs?
What were you actually trying to get across?
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#27
ZoneDymo
why do emotions always run so high when it concerns Intel/AMD/Nvidia, I mean shit
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#28
HumanSmoke
ZoneDymowhy do emotions always run so high when it concerns Intel/AMD/Nvidia, I mean shit
Pretty obvious isn't it? A LOT of people see brands as polar opposites- some kind of Good versus Evil comic book struggle.
The reality is it's all shades in between, but if people admit that then they have no rooting interest, and more importantly have less personal justification for their own purchasing bias.

I mean, if you wanted to get down to brass tacks, AMD wouldn't actually exist without Intel. I don't mean the x86 licence that IBM strong armed Intel into, but the fact that it took Robert Noyce's investment in AMD to legitimize them in eyes of investors after Arthur Rock turned down the opportunity. The other side of the coin is Intel as a company used just about every means at its disposal- fair means and foul- to rid itself of AMD when IBM ceased to be a player in the PC market after MS, Compaq and the rest of the Gang of Nine became the dominant force. Add in Jerry Sanders coup d' état in forcing his original partners out of AMD and granting himself virtually unlimited power once they were gone....and of course Intel's various underhanded acts of litigation warfare and the picture becomes so muddied that its little wonder that people like to keep it simple.
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#29
Ja.KooLit
anybody knows OEM? wonder about price and performance
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#30
the54thvoid
Super Intoxicated Moderator
Nothing wrong with what AMD are doing. Diversify your product stack. They did it with RAM last year I think.
The 'wrong' or 'right' will come from the pricing, i.e. are you stupid enough to buy a higher priced Radeon branded product? Or can you swallow your pride enough to buy a cheaper Radeon branded product to work in your neon green Tower case powered by sli 780ti's?
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#31
john_
HumanSmokeMy bad then. From your post it parses as you think Intel is cutting out its partners
No, no you misunderstood. I was sarcastic in my first post - intel wasn't alienated with anybody all those years that sells SSDs, and I was totally agreeing with your post that you did after that first one I did, so I used it to go a little further. I wasn't quoting you to say that Intel was doing something bad or you where saying something wrong. The opposite.
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#32
swaaye
I'm sure this is just more of the Radeon brand name stamped on some 3rd party product like the Radeon RAM, AMD Gaming Evolved App, and Radeon RAMDisk stuff. This all started with the big management shake up a few years ago. Using licensed ARM technology and macros as some of their future CPUs is kind of similar too for that matter.
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#33
Farmer Boe
I think people have missed the fact that this is only an "R7" branded SSD. Hopefully AMD has an R9 series in PCI-E or M.2 form factor.
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#34
Cybrnook2002
I like this, AMD is getting to the point where you can have an entire PC of AMD parts, CPU, motherboard chipset/controllers, GPU, Memory, SSD.

Would sit nice knowing everything should play well together with a fair price tag and competitive pricing.
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#35
dlpatague
Clearly you guys did not look at the slides as it states at the bottom, "Radeon R7 series SSD brought to you by OCZ Storage Solutions." So AMD are not making their own SSDs. This makes the OEM Toshiba.
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#36
AsRock
TPU addict
Does it really matter lets face it most SSD's are made by other than the company who sells it so WTF. Goes with any thing for example VCR's \TV's the front display was ran by a chip and most of the time you would find Toshiba chips in them too..

Very few company's make some thing these days.
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#37
GhostRyder
ZoneDymowhy do emotions always run so high when it concerns Intel/AMD/Nvidia, I mean shit
Because if you have not noticed the same few people comment about how bad certain things are and make jokes about said company regardless of the subject. Same 2 people seem to start an argument regarding AMD no matter what the underlying subject is and it grows quite old since every subject has gotten so far from the original topic that mods have had to step in and delete/stop the bickering when it conforms to AMD/Nvidia/Intel.

The R7 series SSD's...Quite interesting especially looking at the base specs in general (Though as already pointed out seems to be OEM Toshiba). It may come down to price because with that choice in controller and the specifications we could see a really competitive set of SSD's (Though my loyalty is still stuck on Samsung). As others have stated, AMD is creating a wide variety of products and quite possibly preparing for some Radeon branded machines...Could be cool I suppose.
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#38
jagd
These SSD's are from OCZ with 19nm toshiba Nands ,but i don't know which model , vertex 460 or vector 150 ( both use 19nm toshiba nand iirc ) .
Toshiba bought OCZ SSD division short time ago btw.
night.foxanybody knows OEM? wonder about price and performance
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#39
Dent1
I think SSDs are the way forward, the writing has been on the wall for traditional disk HDD because they are slow and noisy. I always felt SSDs were always ignored in mainstream systems because of the price to capacity ratio. I can remember when 80GB SSDs were over £300 and were very unrealiable. We are at a point now where SSDs are becoming very cheap and mainstream. I've been waiting for this period to happen for 10 years. Even in the last couple of years we are seeing bigger SSDs are becoming the norm. I'm seeing 500GB SSD for relatively cheap. The more manufacturers of SSDs the better, it will keep competition high and prices low and we can evolve from this disk drive which has been plaguing system performance for far too long.
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#40
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
Dent1I think SSDs are the way forward, the writing has been on the wall for traditional disk HDD because they are slow and noisy. I always felt SSDs were always ignored in mainstream systems because of the price to capacity ratio. I can remember when 80GB SSDs were over £300 and were very unrealiable. We are at a point now where SSDs are becoming very cheap and mainstream. I've been waiting for this period to happen for 10 years. Even in the last couple of years we are seeing bigger SSDs are becoming the norm. I'm seeing 500GB SSD for relatively cheap. The more manufacturers of SSDs the better, it will keep competition high and prices low and we can evolve from this disk drive which has been plaguing system performance for far too long.
I just bought a Crucial MX100 256GB for 100 USD for a machine I sold to a friend. I remember paying 175 USD for each of my 120GB Force GTs back in 2012 when I put my i7 machine together.
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#41
HumanSmoke
Dent1I think SSDs are the way forward, the writing has been on the wall for traditional disk HDD because they are slow and noisy. I always felt SSDs were always ignored in mainstream systems because of the price to capacity ratio. I can remember when 80GB SSDs were over £300 and were very unrealiable. We are at a point now where SSDs are becoming very cheap and mainstream. I've been waiting for this period to happen for 10 years. Even in the last couple of years we are seeing bigger SSDs are becoming the norm. I'm seeing 500GB SSD for relatively cheap. The more manufacturers of SSDs the better, it will keep competition high and prices low and we can evolve from this disk drive which has been plaguing system performance for far too long.
We're still a while away from SSD's truly competing IMO. I'd hate to think what backing up a blu ray (or god forbid 4K content when it arrives) collection would cost with solid state hardware. The other factors are the disparity between cheap MLC units and expensive SLC. Both spinners and SSD's have reliability issues, but if you get hold of a good mechanical drive it can last 20+ years, and some SSD's are yet to prove their superior longevity as Tech Report's ongoing endurance testproves - admittedly this is more a torture test exceeding most users wildest usage scenario's but SSD DOA and failure rates don't sit at 0% either.
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#42
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
HumanSmokeWe're still a while away from SSD's truly competing IMO. I'd hate to think what backing up a blu ray (or god forbid 4K content when it arrives) collection would cost with solid state hardware. The other factors are the disparity between cheap MLC units and expensive SLC. Both spinners and SSD's have reliability issues, but if you get hold of a good mechanical drive it can last 20+ years, and some SSD's are yet to prove their superior longevity as Tech Report's ongoing endurance testproves - admittedly this is more a torture test exceeding most users wildest usage scenario's but SSD DOA and failure rates don't sit at 0% either.
That's if performance and capacity are your only measures. Flash BGA chips are extremely thin and sip power where spinning disks are more bulky and use more power. For small devices, HDDs simply aren't an option simply because of the size. The fact that you can integrate DRAM, flash, CPU, and every other component on to a single PCB is a powerful thing where spinning disks don't make that possible. Right now there are markets for both as spinny disks are still optimal for mass storage due to their price and capacity compared to flash based storage. Each has their benefits and their drawbacks both of which depend highly on the intended use of the device.

All in all, flash has its purposes and HDDs have their own. It's really as simple as that unless SSD capacities continue to grow faster than HDDs and continue to drop in price. I could see there eventually coming a point (far down the road,) where SSDs will make HDDs obsolete but we're no where near there yet.
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#43
ensabrenoir
chinmithe spec looks good. I hope it doesn't overheat and loud
:twitch:.....:roll:

why do emotions always run so high when it concerns Intel/AMD/Nvidia, I mean

were all just sports fans cheering on our favorite team....just so happens our teams are made of silicon and transistors :laugh:
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#44
fullinfusion
Vanguard Beta Tester
While I was reading and in the back of my mind was "sounds like ocz" performance and I was pleased to see it is ocz. Sweet! Sign me up for one! I think its going to look sweet poking out of the top of my case :p

I'm thinking the 120gb one will be around $100 The 240 $149 and the 480 $229

Hurry and bring these sweet looking amd wrapped ocz's out already :)
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#45
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
fullinfusionWhile I was reading and in the back of my mind was "sounds like ocz" performance and I was pleased to see it is ocz. Sweet! Sign me up for one! I think its going to look sweet poking out of the top of my case :p

I'm thinking the 120gb one will be around $100 The 240 $149 and the 480 $229

Hurry and bring these sweet looking amd wrapped ocz's out already :)
If I can get a Crucial MX100 256GB for 100 USD, I definitely wouldn't buy any other 120GB for the same price. ;)
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#46
fullinfusion
Vanguard Beta Tester
AquinusIf I can get a Crucial MX100 256GB for 100 USD, I definitely wouldn't buy any other 120GB for the same price. ;)
Tthese are my expected Canadian prices ;)
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