The transparency of this collaboration is refreshing as most times such things are kept under wraps or at least not openly acknowledged. In fact, if you flip the drive over, there lies OCZ’s branding very prominently on the back sticker and OCZ even lists the Radeon R7 drive on their product page. Plus, there’s even a special version of the OCZ Toolbox with the AMD branding and support will be handled through OCZ. Obviously, OCZ is handling most of the heavy lifting in this partnership I’m sure they are betting on the AMD brand to draw in customers. Looking at the specifications, you can see the reads of 550MB/s and writes of 530MB/s are identical to that of the OCZ Vector 150 drive. In fact, many of the specs are the same except for the IOPS which are rated 5,000 less on the writes at 90,000 and the warranty is one year shorter at four years – which is still a year longer than many other drives and likely as a result of the different NAND used.
