RunCore, a company well known for rugged and specialist SSD products has announced their Pro VI 2.5" 7mm SATA3 SSD range for Ultrabooks at Computex 2012, delivering higher and more stable performance than its previous generations of 7mmm SSDs. What makes these SSDs special is their ability to maintain their write performance even after a lengthy period of heavy use.
While many competing SSDs that can deliver impressive 60,000+ Random 4K write in benchmarks, the write performance drops way down when faced with more than several minutes of sustained random write operations. According to RunCore, after just 10 minutes of sustained random 4K write operations, many competing SSDs fall to around 3000 IOPS, whereas the RunCore Pro VI series falls to just under 6000 IOPS and maintains this even after 2 hours of sustained random 4K write operations. A graph can be seen in the press release.
These Pro VI SSDs are JMicron based, using Synchronous NAND and 32MB of cache. The range is capable of delivering up to 550MB/s read and 380MB/s write throughput, with read and write IOPS of up to 80,000 and 60,000, respectively.
The RunCore Pro VI comes in capacities ranging from 32GB to 512GB. So far no shipping date or pricing information has been announced.
