AMD Unveils Radeon R7 Series Gaming SSDs

Are some people seriously still questioning the benefits of SSDs??
 
OCZ is the worse unless they improved something since they been bought out. I rather take a chance on a Intel SSD.
 
Jon55 said:
Are some people seriously still questioning the benefits of SSDs??
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I am, and I own three. Unfortunatly most of the games I play are online and most of the load delay is caused by server syncing or just waiting around for everyone else to load anyway. My machine only restarts for updates when I'm not using it and rarely does at all if I am. Once you load most apps once they launch really quickly thanks to drive caching anyway... So while it makes the machines feel snappy in some cases there is really little benefit to actual performance while doing anything cpu or gpu intensive, and I really don't do much that needs tiny random reads where spinning media performs terribly.
 
<3 AMD. They know what they are doing, and their bottom line will show it in a year or two. Slow goin, but the right direction.
 
Draxanoth said:
I have an OCZ 240gb SSD in my laptop and it has worked perfectly for years. >_>
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So have I without issues for years, but their QA was spotty for a while. Nothing is be up in arms about, but careful. Now that they have been acquired by Toshiba however I'd think things have been changing over there for the better.
 
SSDs provide no FPS benefit to games, so once everything is loaded you can't tell the difference between a SSD or HDD.
Playing Payday 2 a lot however, I've noticed the SSD has reduced my level load time to a fraction of what it used to be, which helps because my buddies don't have to wait a minute to start a heist for me to load a level since THEY all have SSDs.
Levels load faster, games start quicker, no FPS benefit, but STILL worth running.
 
I'm going to get one 256GB SSD for my OS in my upcoming build, but I'm going to skip it for my games and stuff. I know it is slower, but the cost just isn't worth it to me when it could mean the difference in 2 or 3 video cards.
 
I have an old ssd solely for games in my sig. Its plenty fast for load times in games. (Im usually first to load in online games.)

I see no reason to have gamer targeted SSD. any ssd should do. imo.

Just get the largest.
 
I agree that siding with the name OCz isnt a good move and puts them in the second rate category.
If they can give me good reason to not buy from other reputable mfrs, fair enough.
(performance, reliability and price)
Until they can provide proof of the above, I wont take the risk.
In 10 years, if they excel in all 3, I'll give them another look.

I've owned 3 SSDs, the first 2 were OCz.
I gave them 2 chances, the second failed dismally, worse than the first.
They are why I now have a Samsung which I'm extremely happy with.
 
SGA76 said:
SSDs provide no FPS benefit to games, so once everything is loaded you can't tell the difference between a SSD or HDD.
Playing Payday 2 a lot however, I've noticed the SSD has reduced my level load time to a fraction of what it used to be, which helps because my buddies don't have to wait a minute to start a heist for me to load a level since THEY all have SSDs.
Levels load faster, games start quicker, no FPS benefit, but STILL worth running.
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I'd say that's true about 99% of the time, although I have seen one or two poorly programmed games that somehow just never stop streaming textures even after a level is loaded, but those have been very rare. Some open world games that load areas in chunks constantly as you travel can also benefit, but again, these are not the vast majority of games.
 
drescherjm said:
A 250GB SSD will run you $125 or so. I guess you are talking about low end video cards.
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No. I'm looking at either 2 780Ti's or 3 880GTX's (depending on price / performance). I'm also very interested in the X99 platform. I might have to make some sacrifices somewhere and a super expensive SSD will be the first thing to go. I'm going to keep a 256GB SSD for my OS, but my games will have to go on a pair of RAID'd spinners.
 
MisterHipster said:
<3 AMD. They know what they are doing, and their bottom line will show it in a year or two. Slow goin, but the right direction.
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Can't be that smart if they are rebranding OCz drives. Nevermind Intel still crushes them....
 
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