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    RunCore Pro IV -> super fast SSD?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Hahutzy, May 4, 2009.

  1. Hahutzy

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    Hahutzy, May 4, 2009
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    Seems pretty good, wonder if its another indilinx drive, anyone know?
     
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    Looks like another indilinx drive.

    Those things are everywhere, too bad the price isnt coming down yet
     
    Kamin_Majere, May 4, 2009
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    What's an indilinx drive?
     
    Hahutzy, May 5, 2009
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    Its the company that makes the controller in the drive. They make the controller (maybe the whole drive) for OCZ (OCZ vertex series) and supertalent (i think its the ultradrive series). This controller is pretty good, and does not appear to suffer from stuttering like jmicron controller based drives.
     
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    Well, beyond just appearing, it flat out doesn't suffer from stuttering. 16 MB/s 4K writes in Crystal DiskMark is very good.
     
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    Thanks for the followup, I didn't want to say for certain since I don't own one myself. But I know you and everyone else that have bought it are very happy with it.

    Anyone know if this runcore drive is actually a indilinx drive?
     
    mullenbooger, May 5, 2009
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    It does use an Indilinx controller.
     
    sgogeta4, May 5, 2009
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    This has me interested, seeing how the speeds are much slower on the small file sizes, how does it stack up against a good hdd on those same file sizes?

    I have never run a test on a physical hdd that did a test for all the different file sizes. Guess I could try it on my EEE that I am on right now and answer my own question.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, May 6, 2009
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    [​IMG]

    SSD's are much, much faster.
     
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    Cool :p


    lets see how this samsung in here holds out :p
     
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    CrystalDiskMark 2.2 - top left hand corner :p
     
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    ... and ...?

    The benchmark linked in the OP's post was with 2.2.
     
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    I swear I read that as "that was Crystal Mark?"
     
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    the 250gb Seagate drive I have got like ~60, ~30, ~.4 going down it was much slower.

    I just wanted to see if a mechanical hdd suffered the same loss of speed from smaller file sizes.
     
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