so today is a pretty big day first of all it is the day that I'm going to be
unboxing a very cool product from Silverstone this is the Silverstone hard
drive boost or HDD boost and it is also
an exciting day because it is the last day of the Esther's Easter extravagance
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
Bonanza sweep Stakes where you have a chance to win a card with uh sorry a
card a system with a GTX 480 graphics
card so that is and this is the code word if you're here looking for that a
fery FM I so without further Ado why don't we
get started on the HDD boost unboxing so it comes in a fairly simple brown box
you can see here andh okay yeah it's a
very simple box easy to install compatible with most 2 and 1 12 in SATA
ssds minimum SSD data right times help
extend the SSD life cycle so as you may or may not know SSD is do have a limited
number of times that you can actually write to the whole disc and then rewrite
rewrite rewrite over it so while with most modern ssds it's not a huge problem
they're still saying that yes you know what this will go ahead and it'll reduce
the number of rights that you're doing so it'll increase the lifetime of the drive great you can boost your original
system hard drive read speeds without reinstalling your operating system
that's pretty cool too so create your own Super drive with maximum storage and
maximum speed so they're basically saying that you get all of the benefit
of an SSD which is Fast Response times
with all of the benefit of a hard drive which is inexpensive and high capacity
so here we are let me see it's nickel it is 1 mm spcc with nickel plating it
needs 5 volt in from the PC power supply the requirements are fairly simple you
need to have an SSD and a hard drive so let's get this opened up and have a look
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
um video video sort of box so to speak
all right so let's have a look at this package here first of all we will find
four regular size hard drive screws and two small ones with what looks like a
like a smaller threading on them so we got six screws in there the next thing
we have is a SATA cable with locking connectors all right that looks like a
6-in cable by the way and then we have the hard drive boost wow that was a very
simple package okay so inside the hard
drive Bo boost we will find a place to mount an SSD
drive yeah we'll find a place to mount an SSD drive so we've got our 2 and 1/2
in mounting holes here here here
and we have two that's it two holes okay
I guess that's what those two small ones are for and then this is actually a 3
and 1/2 in adapter so you'll use those full sizee screws in order to mount this
inside your computer so so you can see that the interface on the back this is
where it gets a little bit more complicated you've got your SATA power
in then you have SATA data then you have
another SATA data connector so this one goes to your motherboard and then you
you will use your existing hard drive cable for that and then you can use this
additional cable to go out from this guy
into your hard drive so the chipset on
here and you can see that this is like a proprietary looking chipset it just says
uh Silverstone on that chip itself so we have no way of knowing what's in there
is what does the logic that allows your
HDD boost to know whether it should write any particular piece of data to
the SSD or the hard drive and where to read it from so basically the HDD boost
is a way of treating an SSD kind of like a giant cache it's kind of like RAM is
except sort of one tier down so you got your CPU then your CPU cache then your
RAM then your SSD and then your hard drive so it's one step faster to get the
data off here than it is to get it off of the hard drive that's connected to it
so thanks for watching my unboxing of the HDD boost and uh thank you for
everyone who participated in the Easter
extravaganza