AMD Radeon R3 SSD Series Of SSDs Announced

Mikeha

New AMD SSD Series Offer Decent Read And Write Performance And Featuring Capacities All The Way Up To 960GB

The new AMD SSD series will be available in the following capacities:

• 120GB
• 240GB
• 480GB
• 960GB

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r3-ssd-series-ssds-announced-great-pricing-featured/#ixzz47jK2SZQ1

Volgore

Torval said:

Cheap TLC NAND with yesterday's controller. It's cheap but not impressive.

The author says that vendors don't provide random read/write specs, but that's not true. Lower end vendors don't. Good vendors do. Both Samsung and Micron/Crucial provide random iops ratings, encryption options, etc.

An SSD is not where I would cheap out on a build.

I thought by now all vendors have settled for quality memory and controllers, but then i still keep reading about some SSDs have suddenly been dead from one day to another after 3-4 month.
And i was just tempted to go for an el cheapo SSD from a local media market myself...MUST RESIST!!

Quizzical

bestever said:

Just ocz drives. They make pretty good drives. I have one in my laptop.

"AMD"'s Radeon SSDs used to be just rebranded Patriot SSDs.  It's possible that they went with a different vendor now, but it's really just the real SSD manufacturer paying AMD to let them use the AMD Radeon brand name on it.  They do the same with memory, but you're really dealing with the other vendor, not AMD.

These days, OCZ is just a brand name for Toshiba, anyway.

Quizzical

Torval said:

Cheap TLC NAND with yesterday's controller. It's cheap but not impressive.

The author says that vendors don't provide random read/write specs, but that's not true. Lower end vendors don't. Good vendors do. Both Samsung and Micron/Crucial provide random iops ratings, encryption options, etc.

An SSD is not where I would cheap out on a build.

What makes you think they don't provide specs?

http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/solid-state-drives

Upon further review, they're actually manufactured by Galt.

IAmMMO

If they use a 3rd party controller, then there's no reason to pick these over Intel or Samsung SSD's whose controllers are superior. It's all about the controller they use when it comes to SSD.

Renoaku

Intel have the highest non failure rate at the moment...

Malabooga

IAmMMO said:

If they use a 3rd party controller, then there's no reason to pick these over Intel or Samsung SSD's whose controllers are superior. It's all about the controller they use when it comes to SSD.

I wouldnt use Intels drives due to forced bricking. Corsairs also iirc