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RunCore

RunCore Innovation Science & Technology Ltd was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Changsha, Hunan province in China.

Our purpose is to become the leader in the field of solid-state storage.

RunCore has independent intellectual property based on 10 years of research in the National University of Defense Technology. Now, we are one of the companies which are mastering the core technology of SSDs in China. We have three series of products 2.5"& 3.5" SSD, E-drive, RunStorage.

We have attained National standard and Military standard certificates, ISO-9001:2000, CE, FCC, ROHS. We have 20 patents in China.

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user installable notebook SSDs
from RunCore

RunCore - addresses and links

RunCore Innovation Science & Technology Ltd
Room 307-310 NO.662 Lugu Road
Yuelu Zone, Changsha,
Hunan,
P.R.C
url:- http://www.runcore.com

editor's Comments:- July 2010 - RunCore (one of the top 10 SSD companies) entered the international SSD market (in August 2008). Its roots lie in developing SSDs for defense applications in China. It developed a 400MB/s SSD for defense applications in 2006.

Its SSD products are available in a number of form factors:- 1.8", 2.5", 3.5", PCIe and rackmount and a variety of interfaces including:- Fibre-channel, SCSI , SATA and SAS.

RunCore milestones from SSD market history

In December 2008 - RunCore announced 1.8" PATA SSDs aimed at the notebook upgrade market. Available with capacity upto 128GB (retail price $389.99 ) an inbuilt slave USB port enables users to easily clone their internal hard drive using Acronis True Image (or similar) software. The SSD can then be installed in the notebook typically giving a 4x speedup. RunCore also launched its Hyper Speed - a 2.5" SATA SSD with 256GB with RW speeds of 230MB/s and 150MB/s respectively priced under $700

.In February 2009 - RunCore launched a mini PCI-e form factor, SATA interface compatible flash SSD with 16GB to 128GB capacity. R/W speeds are 125MB/s and 90MB/s respectively.

In May 2009 - RunCore's Pro IV 2.5" MLC SSDs was reviewed in an article in TweakTown.com - which concluded...

"All things considered, the RunCore Pro IV is a hell of a drive that is able to cross over into several market segments; consumer, prosumer and enterprise. The Pro IV is fast, one of the fastest on the market, but that speed comes at a cost and that is really where our only issue sits."

In July 2009 - RunCore was listed #5 in the 9th quarterly edition of the - Top 10 SSD Companies. (Same as before.)

In November 2009 - RunCore announced availability of the Runcore Pro IV Light mini-SATA 50mm PCI-e SSD - a regular flash SSD design and small form factor - which is designed to accelerate netbooks. Capacity options include:- 16GB (32MB cache), 32GB and 64GB (64MB cache) with smaller capacity drives for oems available on request. Sustained R/W speeds are 125MB/s and 80MB/s. Random R/W speeds (4K blocks) are 18MB/s read and 5 MB/s respectively. RunCore says it's compatible with all major OSes and installs easily via its USB slave port.

Mobile computing blogger JKKmobile.com has created many videos about upgrading notebook PCs with SSDs - here's an example with an earlier model from RunCore.

In January 2010 - RunCore started shipments of the 1st SSDs aimed at the PXI Express market (a standard which brings PCIe performance and functionality into the robust modular form factor popular in automated instrumentation test systems). RunCore's 3U CPCIe\PXIe SSD card provides upto 768GB MLC or 384GB SLC capacity and has sustained R/W speeds upto 400MB/s. Available with industrial operating temperature range and MIL-STD-810F processing, the module provides a fast purge rate of 5GB/s.

Also in January 2010 - a benchmark review article in TweakTown.com concluded that RunCore's upcoming Pro V 2.5" SSD - which uses SandForce's SF-1500 SoC is the fastest SATA 2 SSD they have tested.

In March 2010 - RunCore showed an Express Card flash SSD designed for notebooks this month at CeBIT 2010. As well as providing upto 64GB capacity (R/W speeds 120MB/s and 90MB/s) - the Express 34 module also provides 2x USB 3.0 ports with connectors for linking the notebook to external devices.

In April 2010 - RunCore's Pro-V SSD (which uses a SandForce SF1200 SoC) was reviewed in an article in BenchmarkReviews.com. Their conclusion - "The 200GB RunCore Pro-V SSD delivered 286/277 MBps peak read and writes speeds using ATTO Disk Benchmark and trailed by 253/248 MBps in Everest, making this one the fastest SATA-3GBps MLC SSDs we've tested."

In May 2010 - RunCore started sampling i 2.5" and 3.5" SAS flash SSDs for the enterprise server market. The Kylin II product line, available with MLC, EMLC or SLC flash, has R/W speeds upto 270MB/s and 260MB/s respectively, R/W IOPS of 30,000 and 25,000, upto 400GB capacity and 3 years warranty.

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