Silverstone HDDBoost uses an SSD as read cache for HDDs

Comments

  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Oh man, what a sweet little device. It sounds like it's both simple and effective.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited February 2010
    This has promise. Would be better if say WD came out with a line a Raptors that handled this internally.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    In theory, it's not much different from Intel's old Turbo Memory, but on a larger scale. Hybrids like that aren't particularly new ideas, but this has a nice "you don't really have to worry about it" kind of feel to it.
  • Sudo Nimh
    edited February 2010
    Nice device and writeup. Thanks Thrax.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    That's pretty stinking awesome. Nice writeup, Thrax!
  • DrLiamDrLiam British Columbia
    edited February 2010
    This is an item I would really consider buying but the price of SSDs are still a little high for my taste. Great preview, thank you!
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    DrLiam wrote:
    This is an item I would really consider buying but the price of SSDs are still a little high for my taste. Great preview, thank you!

    It all depends on what you want to boost, really. You could get away with a much smaller device and still drastically increase boot times (provided you actually reboot your computer. I mean, really. Who does that?).

    Looks like a great device that will hopefully encourage more people to purchase SSDs, and start lowering the cost of the larger SSDs even more.
  • Jason404
    edited February 2010
    This is nothing new. Support has been here since 2006 with Vista's ReadyDrive, and Intel Turbo Memory has been available on Centrino laptops for nearly as long.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Jason404 wrote:
    This is nothing new. Support has been here since 2006 with Vista's ReadyDrive, and Intel Turbo Memory has been available on Centrino laptops for nearly as long.

    It's not a new concept, for sure. Hybrid Hard Drives have been around for a while, but never really hit wide adoption (marketing fail, IMO).

    This unit essentially allows you to construct a HybridHDD.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    And those concepts failed because they used shitty flash. This is quite a bit different from a performance perspective.
Sign In or Register to comment.