SilverStone HDDBOOST

[Apoptosis]

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HDDBOOST is a unique product that combines the best qualities of traditional hard drive and solid state disk (SSD) into one virtual super storage solution. Depending on the speed of the SSD added, the HDDBOOST can increase the performance of an existing host hard drive up to 70%(*)! This speed increase is very noticeable and significant for any PC users that have not experienced using SSD drives before. For those who are not ready to compromise on storage capacity and reliability for speed, HDDBOOST will enable SSD speed on its host hard drive and reduce the write times to SSD’s more fragile flash-based storage system, thus extending its effective lifetime.

*base on SSD performance

Special Feature
Boost your original system HDD read speed without reinstalling OS
Minimum SSD data write times help extend SSD life-cycle
Easy to install
Compatible with most of 2.5” SATA SSD

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Specifications
Model Number - SST-HDDBOOST
Enclosure material - 1.0 mm SPCC with Nickel Plating
Color - Nickel
Power requirement - +5V in from PC power supply
Interface - SATA 3Gbps
Application - 3.5” Internal hard drive bay
SDD Support - 2.5" SATA interface
Operating system support - Any OS with SATA interface support
HDD interface support - 3.5” Internal hard drive bay
Controller Board Dimension - 98.6x24.5x1.6mm
Enclosure interface -
1 x 7 pin SATA connector to motherboard.
1 x 7 +15 pin SATA + Power connector to system hard drive and power.
1 x USB connector (For firmware upgrade only)
Net Weight - 160g±10g
Dimension - 130.5mm(W) x 101.6mm(D) x 25.4mm(H)

How does HDDBOOST work?

HDDBOOST will carry out the action of mirror backup right after the initial installation. This action will copy the front-end data of the original system hard drive to the SSD sequentially (assuming that the capacity of SSD is smaller than HDD.).



After the initial mirroring of data is completed, SSD and HDD will have the same front -end data. HDDBOOST’s controller chip will then set data read priority to SSD to take advantage of SSD’s much faster read speed. HDDBOOST’s priority will be determined by the following rules:

1.When data is present on both drives, read from SSD.
2.When data is not present on both drives, read from HDD.
3.Data will only be written to HDD.

Every time the system starts, HDDBOOST will initiate mirror backup automatically to ensure front-end data between the two drives are the same.

[FZ1]

I have a feeling the newer SSD's coming out later this year will make this more or less obsolete except for those who want to buy an older SSD.