http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/ Engadget Comments for SilverStone HDDBOOST lets you build your own hybrid SSD hard drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
It looks so simple, I'm sure I could whip up my own in an hour.]]>Feb 26th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
I'm missing the the daisy chaining part though... considering it mirrors the "front end" data of the drive plugged up. How would it mirror multiple drives?

Heck, I'd like to see this thing work with 2 drives striped for faster write speeds and amazingly fast reads.]]>Feb 4th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
"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."]]>Feb 4th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Agreed. Heh.]]>Feb 4th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
Except unless you've run out of SATA connections on your mobo like I have.]]>Feb 4th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
From the way it sounds, you still need to buy a SSD to make this work.]]>Feb 4th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Does no one understand the concept of hybrid hard drives? It uses the flash memory to boost the performance of the standard spindle hard drive. So you can have a 1TB hard drive and have a smaller SSD hooked up to this device and get a performance boost on the things stored on the large hard drive.]]>Feb 4th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/how much of a boost are we really talking about here? installing the OS on the SSD will give you much faster speeds overall. how fast do you REALLY need to access your mp3's and h264's? Unless we're talking about serious read/write intensive apps i don't see this as being very useful.]]>Feb 4th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
Thus why this is not for everyone. This will work wonders for professionals doing audio/video work on their machines.]]>Feb 4th 2010 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
I see what your saying, that does makes with editing hd and 3D for example. Although with the rw speeds these days, the bus is the bottleneck these days.]]>Feb 5th 2010 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
You're much better off IMO just buying a regular SSD and installing the OS and frequently used applications on it, and keep the less frequently used ones and media on your regular storage drive, thats what I do.]]>Feb 4th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Are you so sure about that? Both Windows Vista and 7 take advantage of hybrid drives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista_IO_technologies#ReadyDrive]]>Feb 4th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
Say what? - I think you need to look closely at the Silverstone website. It creates a serial type connection from your mobo's SATA to this device, to your primary HD, and mirrors data from your HD. You should be able to revert your system without any problems, at any time, since you're not actually moving any data.]]>Feb 4th 2010 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 4th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/
And with large games, installing them on the "storage" platter is still higher performance since the SSD is handling all Windows tasks independently, providing 100% read time to the dedicated platter where the game is neither fragmented nor spread out on the platter.]]>Feb 4th 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/silverstone-hddboost-lets-you-build-your-own-hybrid-ssd-hard-dri/Feb 5th 2010 10:40PM