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32GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8" Female PATA Solid State Drive SSD by RunCore


32GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8
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Key Features

  • 32GB RunCore SSD with Female 1.8" PATA connection
  • Suitable for many netbooks and laptops
  • Read speed up to 85MB/sec
  • Write speed up to 79MB/sec
  • Includes SSD enclosure and installation kit
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Details
RunCore Pro IV 1.8" Female PATA SSD incorporates advanced flash controller and NAND flash memory technology to deliver a state-of-the-art, non-volatile mass storage device. It supports capacity from 16GB to 128GB. 1.8" IDE SSD contains the cache size of up to 64MB with maximum transfer rate as high as 80MB/s. Furthermore, it's characteristics of low power consumption and anti-vibration are obvious.

RunCore Pro IV 1.8" PATA IDE SSD as standard PATA driver, which supports all major operating systems such as Windows 9X/Me/NT/XP/CE/Vista/Windows7, MAC, Linux and Unix, Solaris, Vxworks. Therefore, it is an ideal storage device for commercial users' mobile PC.

Easy 3 Step Do-It-Yourself Upgrade

All RunCore Pro V SSDs offer upgrading made easy with our simple 3 Step Do-It-Yourself upgrade package, which gives you all the tools you need and simplifies the process so that even a novice computer user can easily complete it.

1. Plug the RunCore SSD drive into an available USB port.
2. Run the included cloning software.
3. Install the SSD and enjoy.

It's that easy!
The upgrade package includes a High Speed USB 2.0 HDD case and cables to clone your existing drive and turn it into an external USB drive, a 15 Day Free Trial of Acronis Migrate Easy for PC and Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac, and screwdriver.

Typical Applications

* SONY series laptop
* TOSHIBA series laptop

Advance Wear-Leveling Algorithm

The NAND flash devices are limited by a certain number of write cycles. When using a file system, frequent file table updates is mandatory. If some area on the flash wears out faster than others, it would significantly reduce the lifetime of the whole device, even if the erase counts of others are far from the write cycle limit. Thus, if the write cycles can be distributed evenly across the media, the lifetime of the media can be prolonged significantly. The scheme is achieved both via buffer management and specific advanced wear leveling to ensure that the lifetime of the flash media can be increased, and the disk access performance is optimized as well.

S.M.A.R.T Function

S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, an open standard allowing disk drives to automatically monitor their own health and report potential problems. It protects the user from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and storing critical drive performance and calibration parameters. Ideally, this should allow taking proactive actions to prevent impending drive failure. SMART feature adopts the standard SMART command B0h to read data from the drive. When the SMART Utility running on the host, it analyzes and reports the disk status to the host before the device is in critical condition.

Built-in Hardware ECC

The ATA-Disk Module uses BCH Error Detection Code (EDC) and Error Correction Code (ECC) algorithms which correct up to eight random single-bit errors for each 512-byte block of data. High performance is fulfilled through hardware-based error detection and correction.

Specifications:

Cache 64MB
Interface Female PATA (50 Pin Connector)
NAND Flash MLC
Write Rate Max* 79MB/s
Read Rate Max* 85MB/s
Random 4K Read Rate* 25MB/s
Random 4K Write Rate* 6MB/s
Operation Temperature 0°C to 70°C
Dimension 74.5mm x 54.2mm x 5mm
Weight* < 30g
Data Retention 10 Years
ECC Correction 10,000 R/W
Voltage Input 3.3V ± 5%
Power Consumption* Typical: < 1.6W
Idle: < 0.5W
Write Endurance > 80years@10GB write/day
Read Endurance Unlimited
MTBF > 1,000,000 Hours
Flash Management Bad Block Management
Dynamic and static wear-leveling
Defect management
Sudden power-off recovery
Regulations RoHS-6 Compliant
Specifications
CAPACITY 32GB
INTERFACE TYPE Female PATA 50-pins (CF 50-pin)
FORM FACTOR 1.8"
DEVICE TYPE SSD Solid State Disk
DATA TRANSFER RATES Write Rate Max 79MB/s
Read Rate Max 85MB/s
Random 4K Read Rate 25MB/s
Random 4K Write Rate 6MB/s
FLASH STORAGE DETAILS MLC Nand Flash chips
OPERATING TEMPERATURE 0°C to 70°C
MTBF > 1,000,000 Hours
SPECIAL FEATURES Includes Acronis Migrate Easy for PC and Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac (On Drive)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 50pin PATA interface
DIMENSIONS 74.5mm x 54.2mm x 5mm
WEIGHT 30g
PACKAGING Retail packaging
WARRANTY 2 years manufacturers warranty
User Reviews
  • 1 review
  • 1 review
T Furnell
Dell Latitude X1 laptop
March 15th 2011 Verified user
The 1.8" disk and female PATA connector in the Dell X1 limits the choice of SSD, but I found the 32GB RunCore at memoryC.

It arrived promptly, and fitting was straightforward. The external box lets you copy the drive easily and keep the old one as a spare USB drive. I reinstalled with Windows 7 so didn't try the software, but the external drive works fine.

I haven't seen a difference in battery life, but performance is transformed! The tiny drives used in some laptops can be a major bottleneck. After using it for a couple of months it hasn't slowed noticeably, although the lack of TRIM may have an impact over time. It is also silent (but was never that noisy before!).

PROS:
- Fast
- Silent
- More resilient to being dropped!
- Supplied with cloning software (* not tested)
- Use existing hard disk as external drive

CONS:
- No observable increase in Battery life
- Lacks the TRIM support found in newer SATA drives
- Expensive compared to other SSDs, presumably due to the custom interface
Review of 32GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8" Female PATA Solid State Drive SSD
stuart ryalls
Old tosh upgrade
December 12th 2010 Verified user
With prices for ssdrives coming down i thought i would have a play with my old tosh r100, its pretty old now but its light, it works and a recent upgrade to W7 has given it a new lease of life.

so a 32GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8" Female PATA seemed just the ticket. The delivery from memoryc was on time and actually was what i ordered which is always a good start. The drive comes with an usb interface and a box, so when you have finished you have rather a swish portable USB powered drive as you can put the old one in it. the upgrade is slightly more complex than it suggests on the box but all the software is there to clone the old drive on to the new and a screw driver to fit it.

So the result is longer battery life, much much apparent faster PC speed, quiet operation and i guess less risk if dropped it. That with a portable drive as well whats not to like!!
Review of 32GB RunCore Pro IV 1.8" Female PATA Solid State Drive SSD
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