SilverStone Device Gives 70% HDD Boost

[hawaiitom]

Available in US as of 2/18/10, according to Joel at SilverStone US HQ in CA.

 

[warmon6]

Hmmm.... im not sure desktop really need this, althoguh i do see it much more potential for this product to be in a laptop were power saving, performance, and storage is much tighter than a desktops.

Could be just me.

Cant wait for some benches though.

 

[Guest]

you lot really can't see the point of this?
Say you need a lot of files stored (say 2tb), but you only access most of them infrequently. This will substancially increase those files which are accessed frequently. I can see this being extremely useful for a web server.

 

[Guest]

i really wish if they could compressed the SSD and HDD in one 2.5form because i guess this is more ideal for netbooks and notebooks who does not want to carry around an external HDD. just imagine the capability of faster seek, read and write and the storage for example of 1tb inside your little laptop. i mean 1tb of SSD is really a mind blowing price to have. i wish they would push this technology faster.

but i really disagree with this idea. i can't buy this stuff for my desktop because desktop boards houses mostly 6 sata nowadays. u can always just put a 1tb to 2 tb of HDD in one of the sata then put a decent 32gb SSD in another sata to store the OS and APPS for faster performance. this gadget would be a redundant and is an additional cost.

 

[Guest]

This makes some sense to me. You can use a cheaper smaller ssd like the Intel 40gig X25-v to cache the frequently used files. I'll bet a 40gig cache that's already loaded at startup time (unlike a ram cache) would greatly improve the performance of most computers. 40 gigs could probably cache 75% of our daily programs - yet we wouldn't be limited to the small size of the ssd.
Buy us some time until a cheaper more powerful 250 or 500 gig ssd comes along.

 

[a3dsail]

The main appeal this device holds for me is that since it only writes to the SSD during manual sync or reboots, it doesn't need TRIM or a garbage collection utility. I purchased a Kingston 64GB SSD back in September (after neglecting to perform proper research) and found out it had neither TRIM support nor any garbage collection utility and no future plans to supply them. I think this might be just what the doctor ordered. I'll never buy another Kingston "anything," but I thank Silverstone for allowing me to use my SSD after all.

 

[bishopjack]

Love this product!
My windows 7 boots in 15seconds, and my HDDboost has a Kingston now 128GB strapped to a 1TB Western Digital black drive. My Adobe apps and other stuff runs in a few seconds. No software or drivers needed.
The only thing you need to do is defrag once in while to make sure your apps and system files are placed near the front of the drive.
I usage Asulogic Disk Drag with Optimize to do this.

 

[pwinzor]

i'm thinking of getting one of these i've never used an ssd before and from what i hear the main reason you actully do want to get one of these is because the price of large ssd drives is so much. think about it you can get a wd black 1tb for $100 this device for $50 and a 60gb ssd for about $130 compared to even a 500gb ssd that's much cheaper and also if you play a lot of games you don't really have the option to only use a small ssd cause most games require windows registry files and must be installed on the same drive so if you play a good 10+ games you won't be able to fit em all on the ssd. i also saw an ncix tech tip reveiw on this and it does outperform any drives out besides ssd's. i'm just not sure that all this money required for ssd drives is worth it cause the only thing that i've heard it does is lower laod times i would rather save myself a good $2-300 and go with a wd black and get a better cpu or video card when i see something i like. let me know what you all think cause like i said ive never used an ssd and i'm really not sure its worth it for a gaming computer.

 

[Gewehr98]

So will this thing work when attached to a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive with multiple partitions? My Win 7 install is on the C: drive partition - will the HDDboost device mirror just the C: drive's OS tracks, or does the drive have to be one huge 1TB native drive for HDDboost to function?