WEBVTT 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 00:00:03.639 --> 00:00:11.280 unboxing a very cool product from Silverstone this is the Silverstone hard 00:00:07.640 --> 00:00:13.040 drive boost or HDD boost and it is also 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:16.400 an exciting day because it is the last day of the Esther's Easter extravagance 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 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:31.359 Bonanza sweep Stakes where you have a chance to win a card with uh sorry a 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:33.840 card a system with a GTX 480 graphics 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 00:00:35.879 --> 00:00:42.879 fery FM I so without further Ado why don't we 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:48.600 get started on the HDD boost unboxing so it comes in a fairly simple brown box 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:50.600 you can see here andh okay yeah it's a 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:56.079 very simple box easy to install compatible with most 2 and 1 12 in SATA 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:58.559 ssds minimum SSD data right times help 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 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:08.560 number of times that you can actually write to the whole disc and then rewrite 00:01:06.119 --> 00:01:12.759 rewrite rewrite over it so while with most modern ssds it's not a huge problem 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 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 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:25.000 system hard drive read speeds without reinstalling your operating system 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:28.520 that's pretty cool too so create your own Super drive with maximum storage and 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:33.840 maximum speed so they're basically saying that you get all of the benefit 00:01:30.759 --> 00:01:36.159 of an SSD which is Fast Response times 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:41.240 with all of the benefit of a hard drive which is inexpensive and high capacity 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 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:51.840 needs 5 volt in from the PC power supply the requirements are fairly simple you 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 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 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:04.640 um video video sort of box so to speak 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 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:13.400 four regular size hard drive screws and two small ones with what looks like a 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:17.519 like a smaller threading on them so we got six screws in there the next thing 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:21.959 we have is a SATA cable with locking connectors all right that looks like a 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 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:31.720 simple package okay so inside the hard 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:38.400 drive Bo boost we will find a place to mount an SSD 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 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.720 in mounting holes here here here 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:51.640 and we have two that's it two holes okay 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 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 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:05.120 inside your computer so so you can see that the interface on the back this is 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:11.480 where it gets a little bit more complicated you've got your SATA power 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:14.239 in then you have SATA data then you have 00:03:11.480 --> 00:03:18.200 another SATA data connector so this one goes to your motherboard and then you 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:24.040 you will use your existing hard drive cable for that and then you can use this 00:03:20.760 --> 00:03:27.120 additional cable to go out from this guy 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:28.959 into your hard drive so the chipset on 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:33.920 here and you can see that this is like a proprietary looking chipset it just says 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 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:41.519 is what does the logic that allows your 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:46.400 HDD boost to know whether it should write any particular piece of data to 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 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 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 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 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 00:04:08.480 --> 00:04:17.280 so thanks for watching my unboxing of the HDD boost and uh thank you for 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:20.280 everyone who participated in the Easter 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:20.280 extravaganza