14 DAY TRIAL // Almost a month after RunCore initially announced the company is getting ready to release a new single-chip solid state drive solution designed for highly compact mobile devices, the Chinese SSD maker went ahead and officially launched these devices.
This new micro-chip package (MCP) was dubbed rSSD by RunCore and contains all the usual hardware that is found inside a regular solid state drive, such as the NAND Flash, SSD controller and DRAM cache, packed together in a single chip.
As a result of the high integration achieved by the Chinese company, the rSSD is a great solution for those devices that have limited space on the design board and require a low power consumption.
Smartphones and tablets are the primary candidates, but the RunCore's MCP can also be used in other devices, including, PDAs, notebook computers, handheld POS machine, bank counters, and communication equipment to name just a few of its applications.
Furthermore, the rSSD will also be available in a special industrial version designed for operating in harsh environments, which is capable of sustaining temperatures from -40C to +85C.
Much like its much larger brothers, RunCore's MCP product also supports standard SSD functions like SATA 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s transfer rates, ECC, wear leveling, trim function, data protection and even SMART commands to monitor the life expectancy of the product.
Users have the option of choosing between SATA or PATA versions of the rSSD, while capacities range between 4GB and 64GB. Both SLC and MLC drives are available (SLC top at 32GB) and the BGA packaging used by RunCore measures just 14mm by 18mm.
Sadly, the Chinese SSD maker hasn't revealed when the first devices based on the rSSD design will hit the market, but these can be integrated into a wide range of products including small form-factor mSATA drives.