1 00:00:00,359 --> 00:00:05,120 so today is a pretty big day first of all it is the day that I'm going to be 2 00:00:03,639 --> 00:00:11,280 unboxing a very cool product from Silverstone this is the Silverstone hard 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:13,040 drive boost or HDD boost and it is also 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:16,400 an exciting day because it is the last day of the Esther's Easter extravagance 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:22,800 I'm just going to pick up my camera here and have a look at that Esther's Easter Extravaganza chance to win a basket 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:31,359 Bonanza sweep Stakes where you have a chance to win a card with uh sorry a 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:33,840 card a system with a GTX 480 graphics 8 00:00:31,359 --> 00:00:37,120 card so that is and this is the code word if you're here looking for that a 9 00:00:35,879 --> 00:00:42,879 fery FM I so without further Ado why don't we 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:48,600 get started on the HDD boost unboxing so it comes in a fairly simple brown box 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,600 you can see here andh okay yeah it's a 12 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:56,079 very simple box easy to install compatible with most 2 and 1 12 in SATA 13 00:00:53,039 --> 00:00:58,559 ssds minimum SSD data right times help 14 00:00:56,079 --> 00:01:03,199 extend the SSD life cycle so as you may or may not know SSD is do have a limited 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:08,560 number of times that you can actually write to the whole disc and then rewrite 16 00:01:06,119 --> 00:01:12,759 rewrite rewrite over it so while with most modern ssds it's not a huge problem 17 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,680 they're still saying that yes you know what this will go ahead and it'll reduce 18 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:21,000 the number of rights that you're doing so it'll increase the lifetime of the drive great you can boost your original 19 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:25,000 system hard drive read speeds without reinstalling your operating system 20 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:28,520 that's pretty cool too so create your own Super drive with maximum storage and 21 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:33,840 maximum speed so they're basically saying that you get all of the benefit 22 00:01:30,759 --> 00:01:36,159 of an SSD which is Fast Response times 23 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:41,240 with all of the benefit of a hard drive which is inexpensive and high capacity 24 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:47,399 so here we are let me see it's nickel it is 1 mm spcc with nickel plating it 25 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:51,840 needs 5 volt in from the PC power supply the requirements are fairly simple you 26 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:55,399 need to have an SSD and a hard drive so let's get this opened up and have a look 27 00:01:53,719 --> 00:02:03,119 at what's inside the first thing we're going to see I'm going to go ahead and adjust my camera here I'm in my little 28 00:01:59,079 --> 00:02:04,640 um video video sort of box so to speak 29 00:02:03,119 --> 00:02:09,479 all right so let's have a look at this package here first of all we will find 30 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:13,400 four regular size hard drive screws and two small ones with what looks like a 31 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:17,519 like a smaller threading on them so we got six screws in there the next thing 32 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:21,959 we have is a SATA cable with locking connectors all right that looks like a 33 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:29,120 6-in cable by the way and then we have the hard drive boost wow that was a very 34 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,720 simple package okay so inside the hard 35 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:38,400 drive Bo boost we will find a place to mount an SSD 36 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:44,720 drive yeah we'll find a place to mount an SSD drive so we've got our 2 and 1/2 37 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,720 in mounting holes here here here 38 00:02:46,159 --> 00:02:51,640 and we have two that's it two holes okay 39 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:56,360 I guess that's what those two small ones are for and then this is actually a 3 40 00:02:54,080 --> 00:03:00,800 and 1/2 in adapter so you'll use those full sizee screws in order to mount this 41 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:05,120 inside your computer so so you can see that the interface on the back this is 42 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:11,480 where it gets a little bit more complicated you've got your SATA power 43 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:14,239 in then you have SATA data then you have 44 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:18,200 another SATA data connector so this one goes to your motherboard and then you 45 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:24,040 you will use your existing hard drive cable for that and then you can use this 46 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:27,120 additional cable to go out from this guy 47 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,959 into your hard drive so the chipset on 48 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:33,920 here and you can see that this is like a proprietary looking chipset it just says 49 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:39,080 uh Silverstone on that chip itself so we have no way of knowing what's in there 50 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:41,519 is what does the logic that allows your 51 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:46,400 HDD boost to know whether it should write any particular piece of data to 52 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:51,879 the SSD or the hard drive and where to read it from so basically the HDD boost 53 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:57,280 is a way of treating an SSD kind of like a giant cache it's kind of like RAM is 54 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:01,480 except sort of one tier down so you got your CPU then your CPU cache then your 55 00:03:59,159 --> 00:04:06,879 RAM then your SSD and then your hard drive so it's one step faster to get the 56 00:04:04,519 --> 00:04:10,760 data off here than it is to get it off of the hard drive that's connected to it 57 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:17,280 so thanks for watching my unboxing of the HDD boost and uh thank you for 58 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:20,280 everyone who participated in the Easter 59 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:20,280 extravaganza