32GB RunCore Pro 50mm PATA Mini PCIe Solid State Drive SSD for Dell Mini 9

I researched this a lot when a friends Dell Mini SSD died just 1 month out of warrenty. Of course, Dell told him to go packing and refused of honor the warranty. I told him I'd give it a shot and did a lot of research on replacement mini-ssds for the mini's. The RunCores came quickly to the top of the list by just about every review I read. The only problem was they were so popular that literally no one in the US had one and I had to mail order one from the UK. Not bad, it got here in about 8 days. The original Dell was 16G but the RunCore was so reasonably priced I sprung for the 32G version. That will be important later on in this review.

The PROS:

This is one fast SSD! Came pre-formated and also came with it's own cloning software on the SSD! The good news is that you can use this software to migrate from a smaller SSD to the larger one. The bad news for me was that the drive my friend gave me was already fried so cloning wasn't going to do me...Read more

Great drive for the money. Much faster then the one from Dell. Used in a Dell mini 9 with 1GB of ram. I imaged the old drive to the RunCore. I did that so I could test the speed. From time I push the power button and online with Firefox is 43 sec. Almost 2 min with the Dell drive. Very pleased with the speed.