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22Jul2010
SilverStone HDDBoost Review
System builders are at a crossroads of sorts when it comes time to choose a storage solution. Do you go for balls-to-the-wall performance and slap your wallet silly by investing in a high performance solid state drive (SSD), or are you better off picking up a high capacity, yet slower performing hard drive for a fraction of the cost? There isn't a clear cut answer, but thanks to SilverStone, there might be an alternative. What if you could have both performance and capacity, and not have to spend a fortune to get them?
That's exactly what SilverStone is hoping to make possible with its HDDBoost, a seemingly ingenious device that allows you to combine the capacity of a hard drive with the performance of an SSD by fusing the two together. The end result is a home brewed hybrid drive, one that relies on RAID 1 to take advantage of the strengths of both. Admittedly this all sounds good on paper, but what happens when the rubber meets the road? Good question, and we aim to find out.
5Feb2010
Silverstone Shakes Up SSD/HDD Landscape with HDDBoost
"SilverStone has reinvented the hybrid drive concept with a rather interesting product dubbed HDDBoost.
The contraption is not much to look at, but SilverStone claims it is a clever piece of kit that can boost HDD performance by up to 70 percent. Basically it allows users to connect just about any 2.5-inch SSD to 3.5-inch HDD, thus combining the best of both worlds - SSD seek times and HDD capacities.
It creates a mirror of front end data of the HDD on the SSD and allows the system to access them in less than a millisecond. However, the rest of the data is still read from the HDD, but in spite of this SilverStone claims it can accelerate the drive by up to 70 percent, depending on the speed of the SSD. It all sounds pretty nice, provided it works as advertised. " source
Our Take: Sounds pretty promising, and even more so when you consider the current $50 price tag, at least in Japan. No word on when or if Silverstone plans on shipping this thing to the U.S. market.
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