Silverstone HDDBoost

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I couldn't find anything posted on this yet so here goes:

SilverStone has just announced its HDDBoost, a device that teams an SSD with a hard disk. The aim is to offer the incredibly fast data access speeds typical of SSDs with the high capacity of a hard disk but to make it easy to use, so both appear as a single storage device in Windows. Essentially, the HDDBoost uses an SSD as an huge cache for your hard disk, theoretically delivering the best of both technologies with no compromise. This sounds almost as magical as the Lucid Hydra, but with a much better chance of success.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/02/03/silverstone-announces-hybrid-ssd-hard-disk/1

 

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If its cheap I guess its one way to boost windows performance and game load times on large regularly used files performance while maintaining a large storage size... but potentially puts a lot more writes on the SSD than a normal SSD if data is reguarly being swapped in and out of the "cache".