Solid State Disk maker RunCore has launched a new line of high performance mSATA disks. The RunCore T50 is the first SATA III rated (6Gbps) mSATA disk available, and it’s aimed at high-end portable laptops. Right now only a small number of systems actually use the mSATA standard and most are only rated for SATA II. But the new T50 mSATA drive…

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Solid State Disk maker RunCore has released a new line of 50mm mini-SATA PCIe SSDs for the Asus Eee PC T91 and Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks. Both versions are part of the RunCore Pro IV Light line and are designed for netbooks with mini PCIe slots rather than hard drives. In a nutshell, these SSDs offer faster read and…

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While a number of cheap netbooks ship with solid state disks in lieu of hard drives, they tend to be cheap solid state disks. This means that while you get one of the advantages of flash memory (no moving parts to break), you also often wind up with computers that feel sluggish compared to hard drive equipped models. A handful…

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Netbooks are small and affordable. And in order to make a laptop both of those things, computer makers typically build netbooks out of cheaper parts. For example, while a number of netbooks come with solid state disks, they’re not generally in the same class as the high end SSDs you’d find in more expensive laptop or desktop computers. Netbook SSDs…

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RunCore’s new line of SSDs is now shipping, and the drives are priced very competitively. They’re available in 16, 32, 64, and 128gb capacities and should retail at $69, $119, $199, and $389. Price/performance ratio is good, with read/write speeds on the drives at about 75/40 mb/s. One slick addition is the onboard USB slave port which should make the…

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Mobile tech blogger jkkmobile is highlighting SSD or solid state disk technology all week at his site. In a nutshell, solid state disks offer a number of advantages over traditional hard drives because they have no moving parts which can break, and they don’t make any noise.  They’re also physically smaller, although you typically have to pay more for a…

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