AMD Readies Radeon R7 tagged SSDs

Robbo9999

2014-08-05 11:31

Not really sure the point of these SSD's if they're just an exact copy of somebody else's, just seems like a marketing exercise. I suppose if they're cheaper than the models they're based on then that would be something, if they're more expensive, then you may as well write R7 in biro on your SSD if you like the label that much!

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TheDeeGee

2014-08-05 12:43

Do we really need another to the SSD market? Crucial/Samsung is all you need.

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Tripkebab

2014-08-05 12:50

Do we really need another to the SSD market? Crucial/Samsung is all you need.

More the better, while this dosent really qualify as competition, the more there is the lower the prices.

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Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2014-08-05 13:04

Do we really need another to the SSD market? Crucial/Samsung is all you need.

You should realize that if there only was Samsung and Crucial, you'd be paying a lot more for much slower SSDs.

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MaskedMuchaco

2014-08-05 13:19

So the OEM could very well be OCZ Storage Solutions and thus Toshiba

If you look at the bottom of the slides it says " Radeon R7 series SSD brought to you by OCZ Storage Solutions" so you don't need to look too far for confirmation of that. :P

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Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2014-08-05 13:35

If you look at the bottom of the slides it says " Radeon R7 series SSD brought to you by OCZ Storage Solutions" so you don't need to look too far for confirmation of that. :P

LOL -- completely did not see that. Well, at least my assumption was a good one 🙂

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undeadpolice

2014-08-05 18:32

Do we really need another to the SSD market? Crucial/Samsung is all you need.

How would you like to pay for 5k on a 32GB with extremely low Mbps ?

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Lane

2014-08-05 19:57

In addition, this let them certify the SSD, controllers to work on their chipsets. Important for OEM, less for standard consumer, as i doubt you will find so much of them in the corner street shop's. It is the same for DDR, allowing full combo for OEM vendors / builders ( i think specifically to little vendors of prebuild PC ( mostly only sold there ones on their country ) .. Motherboard - CPU - DDR -SSD - PSU, ( along with GPU ). I dont think they really want to "fight in the SSD market competition".

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Darkest

2014-08-05 20:04

I don't see why people are complaining, almost everything you buy in the hardware world is essentially rebranded or using another companies basic design. - Power Supplies - Memory (RAM) - Monitor screens - GPU's - Motherboards - Optical Drives The list goes on, it's nothing new.

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Fender178

2014-08-05 21:11

Do we really need another to the SSD market? Crucial/Samsung is all you need.

If that were to occur then instead of a few hundred dollars for SSDs then you would be paying a few thousand dollars.

I don't see why people are complaining, almost everything you buy in the hardware world is essentially rebranded or using another companies basic design. - Power Supplies - Memory (RAM) - Monitor screens - GPU's - Motherboards - Optical Drives The list goes on, it's nothing new.

Yeah look at Corsair's hydro series of liquid CPU coolers they are rebranded.

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