RunCore's 100GB Pro V solid state drive gets benchmarked, loved

RunCore's had a thing for delivering high-speed, enthusiast-level SSDs, and if you managed to pass right over the Pro IV, you may find the urge linked to the Pro V a bit too much to resist. TweakTown was able to spend some quality time with the device, which includes a SandForce 1500 controller and low(er)-cost MLC flash. Without getting into the dirty-dirty (trust us, you'll find plenty of charts in the source below), we'll pass along the following note: "we feel comfortable saying that the Pro V will be the enthusiast SSD to which all others will be compared to for the first half of 2010." Of course, with the speed worries behind us, the only question remaining is cost -- which always seems to best the case with SSDs. We're told that it'll cost more than the Barefoot-powered Pro IV, but with competition in the market heating up, hopefully the MSRP won't sting too badly.

[Prospero Posted Jan 9th 2010 10:59AM]

Fancy..

[fel Posted Jan 9th 2010 11:27AM]

SF 1500 is going to be ridiculously expensive. Its 1200 that might be within reach.

[Matt Dawson Posted Jan 9th 2010 4:35PM]

@fel Yes the Pro IV will be around $120 more than the Pro IV but as goes for the pro IV we have a 100% satisfaction guaranteed if you buy one and don't think it did what you wanted it to do for any reason whatsoever you can send it back for a full refund. I can report we have had 0 returns on this policy. Once you use one you will never be able to use a HDD again to run your OS or Applications.

Also the Pro IV is still the absolute best solution for the price and most anyone with a desktop, notebook, or netbook will not be able to tell the difference between the IV and V. Where is will be noticeable is with enterprise solutions and applications that require high speed random writes.

Matt
Runcore

[Kurian Posted Jan 9th 2010 11:50AM]

The SSD is worth more than its weight in gold than that gold plating.

[ericthebikeman Posted Jan 9th 2010 12:09PM]

Runcore is still around? I read they aren't answering emails or forum posts and their lines are disconnected in their "official" support forum.

Too bad since they were the only 1.8" ZIF SSDs larger than 32GB that were not $500+ when you could find them at all.

[Matt Dawson Posted Jan 9th 2010 4:22PM]

@ericthebikeman We are doing the best we can to support everyone. We have made large improvements lately and everyone should be getting prompt replies from our support staff. Also we have made large strides in fixing the issue that are causing the support questions. For example our largest issue was the wake issue from hibernate on some of the PATA drives in certain computers like the Macbook Air and HP 2510p and 2710p. These are now fixed by the new Indilinx FW and they made up about 80% of our support questions. Another issue is installing Window 7 on our PATA solution and now there is a work around that has been posted on our Chinese site and will soon be on the English site. Indilinx is now working on a new FW that will fix that issue as well. Most of the support issues are regarding things that cannot be fixed overnight and we have to wait a long time for a full fix that is why it may appear that our support is not responsive. At this time there are only minor issues (that effect very few people) to be ironed out and that is a issue with the 1.8" PATA Zif and Windows 7 clean install one a few computers (work around available) and the 1.8" PATA IDE is having some blue screen issues with the IBM T41. Other than those they are small individual issues that are being handed case by case.

Thank you Engadget for the post your site is the best of the best.

Runcore is at CES right now at booth #35516.

Matt Dawson CMO
Runcore

[Tattoo Trav Posted Jan 9th 2010 4:52PM]

@Matt Dawson
I installed the SSD in my MacBook Pro, what an incredible difference, I had no issues at all, and the support was top notch. Highly recommended

[Down8 Posted Jan 9th 2010 12:40PM]

"...which always seems to best the case with SSDs..."

...seems to BE the case.... maybe?

Free edits, for free journalism.

-bZj

[Solidstate89 Posted Jan 9th 2010 1:14PM]

Delicious SandForce controllers. Even though those controllers enable a company to keep cost down and use MLC flash, and imagine if you combine that controller with SLC flash?

I don't care how much that would cost, the performance and lack of degradation would be just awesome.

[Trevize Posted Jan 9th 2010 2:45PM]

@Solidstate89

It's not so much about the manufacturer keeping their costs down, it's about Sandforce getting a higher proportion of the manufacturer's costs.