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A Hybrid Approach For SSD Speed From Your 2TB HDD

Posted by timothy on from the bottleneck-feedback-loop dept.

Claave writes "bit-tech.net reports that SilverStone has announced a device that daisy-chains an SSD with a hard disk, with the aim of providing SSD speeds plus loads of storage space. The SilverStone HDDBoost is a hard disk caddy with an integrated storage controller, and is an easy upgrade for your PC. The device copies the 'front-end' of your hard disk to the SSD, and tells your OS to prefer the SSD when possible. SSD speeds for a 2TB storage device? Yep, sounds good to me!"

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  1. Re:2.5" drives only by Cocoronixx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read it again and look at the pictures. The caddy is the size of a 3.5" drive, in which you install a 2.5" SSD. That is what they mean by a "2.5in to 3.5in hard disk caddy".

    AGAIN!? How dare you accuse me of reading TFA. Are you trying to ruin my /. cred?

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  2. Re:2.5" drives only by Em+Emalb · · Score: 3, Funny

    LOL, nerd fight. Someone call a doctor, they might get a paper-cut.

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  3. Breakthrough by thethibs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good Grief, Alice! They've invented cache!

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  4. Re:Pick the false statement by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

    So if you have more data stored on the HD than the size of the SSD, the performance of reading this data will be ever so slightly slower than reading from the HD directly.

    Obviously you need a 2TB SSD in order to get the maximum performance gains from the device.

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