RunCore Pro V Max review: RunCore Pro V Max

I ran into RunCore the first time during CES 2012 and the Pro V Max SSD, introduced at the show, is one of the company's first standard solid-state drives for the U.S. market.

6.9

RunCore Pro V Max

The Good

The <b>RunCore Pro V Max SSD</b> provides fast boot times and great application performance. The drive supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and comes in a sturdy aluminum casing.

The Bad

The RunCore Pro V Max's current price is above average for its copy speed, which could use some improvement.

The Bottom Line

While the RunCore Pro V Max SSD will greatly improve a computer's overall performance, its for now unreasonably high price tag will steer you to the alternatives.

If the first step is always the hardest, the biggest challenge of a drive is its pricing. At around $2 per gigabyte, the Pro V Max is one of the most expensive SSDs on the market, while offering similar performance to many others I have reviewed.

To slightly make up for this, the drive comes in very sleek aluminum casing and offers top boot times and very fast application performance. It supports SATA 3 and will work in all applications where a regular 2.5-inch standard SATA drive is used.

To be fair, the new drive isn't the most expensive on the market and RunCore said that consumers will find its street price to be noticeably lower than the current suggested retail pricing, which is about $450 for the 240GB version, for example. Until then, you might also want to check out other SATA 3-based SSDs that offer similar performance, if not better, for lower cost, such as the Samsung 830 series, or any of the others on this list.

Design and features