AMD Radeon R7 240GB SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2014-12-16

The R7 240 AMD-Branded SSD succeeds to perform really well and positions itself along with the latest Vertex 460 and Vector 150 drives from OCZ; the product succeeds to render very good write speeds and it comes in 7mm format, which makes it compatible with the latest ultrabooks. AMD has extended the warranty to 4 years and for added value we are also getting the Acronis proven drive cloning software for easy migration.

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Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

CPU : Intel I5 3750K Retail

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard : ASRock Z77 Extreme6

RAM :GeIL PC3-17000 2133MHz 8GB EVO Leggera

Video : Sparkle X560 Calibre

Power Supply : Cooler Master 850W

HDD : OCZ Vector 150

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

 

The drive is shipped unformatted:

 

Here is the total free space reported by Windows 7:

 

 

With the help of AIDA64, we can extract more information regarding the drive:

 

 

 

 

The drive comes with its own re-skinned toolbox, from which we can check more technical details or perform different actions. The detected OCZ drives will be listed in the respective tab, along with the full storage capacity, the serial number, firmware version but also the WWN:

 

 

 

From the Tools tab, we will be able to perform a firmware update but also send TRIM command to the drive:

 

 

 

The Security menu helps us perform a Secure Erase:

 

 

 

Finally, we have the Details menu which permits us to check some of the drive technical information:

 

 

 

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