AMD Radeon R7 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

Compressible Data

The drive works slightly better with compressible data, but it is marginal.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison I use the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data fill.

The Radeon R7 drive did really great in the Anvil tests and clearly show the improvements AMD have made on the firmware. The overclocked controller is most likely also able to help this drive achieve these figures. Once again the AMD SSD impresses us.