Based on SandForce controllers to deliver transfer speeds above 500MB/s

Jan 12, 2012 14:24 GMT  ·  By

The number of ultra-thin solid state drives announced has increased in the last few weeks together with the introduction of the second wave of Ultrabooks we are witnessing now, and RunCore is the latest company to offer such a solution with its new 7mm Pro V Ultra SSD.

RunCore’s new solid state drive series will be comprised of four models that range in capacity between 60GB and 480GB, and all of these will use the 2.5-inch form factor with a 7mm thin profile (compared to 9mm in the standard drives).

At the heart of all three units stands the SandForce SF-2281 controller which features native SATA 6Gbps support as well as eight memory channels that are to be connected to NAND Flash chips.

Most probably, the drive is using slightly lower asynchronous NAND Flash, which is cheaper to purchase.

Similar configurations were also used by the company's competitors to deliver more budget-friendly SandForce drives, and some of the most well-known models to go this route are the OCZ Agility 3 and the Mushkin Chronos (both 9mm thick).

RunCore doesn't say anything about the type of NAND these drives use, but it does provide us with a series of details regarding the performance of its 7mm Pro V Ultra solid state drives.

According to this information, the maximum sequential read transfer rates recorded reached 525MB/s, while sequential write speed is rated at 525MB/s. Maximum 4K random write performance is estimated at 75,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second).

The rest of the specification sheet lists an idle and active power consumption of 1.65W and 3W, respectively, while MTBF is estimated at 2 million hours.

As all SF-2200-based drives, the 7mm Pro V Ultra SSD supports the SandForce proprietary DuraClass and DuraWrite technologies.

No information regarding pricing or availability was made available by the Chinese company, so we have no idea when these will arrive in retail.