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    SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    http://www.scan.co.uk/products/silve...our-normal-hdd

    these things..

    Am I right in thinking that you put an SSD into it AND a standard platter style HDD and then the SSD works in conjunction with the standard drive?

    If not.. how does it work?

    And either way... with a small SSD and a big arse Sata drive, is this gonns mammothly improve my Dad's video editing kit?

    Because the quad core is very plainly wracking through the large video files faster than either the donor or recipient sata drive can sort it all out.


    And is it the ideal gaming drive boost?

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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    Yes, you need to buy both an SSD and a hard drive.

    I don't think it will improve your dad's video editing kit massively - see later in the post. If you have a marvel SATA 6gbps controller on your motherboard you should be able to do download drivers that exactly the same thing:
    http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...dd-hdd-updat/1

    As for using SSDs to cache hard drives, there's a seagate hybrid review:
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/s...ood-hybrid-hdd

    which gives some indication of the things that *might* be improved - ie it's a read cache, but it certainly boosts application load performance (arguably superfetch should be doing just as good a job, but you have to wait for it to cache from hard drive at boot). We don't know if the silverstone or marvell hybrids work in the same way, but I expect it would.

    So it depends if your dad's video editing is more read-constrained or write-constrained. If the former then you'll get improved performance if your usage is predictable. If the latter I'm not sure.

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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    Looks like this could be quite good...

    Review here: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...review-12.html
    (page 3 explains how it works)
    Pros:

    - Does boost system performance
    - Enables operating system drives to be larger than any current solid state drive
    - No need to worry about TRIM, ITGC or any other solid state drive problems
    - No increased reboot time
    - Seamless, unnoticeable synchronization
    - Easy firmware upgrading
    - Decreases random access time


    Cons:

    - Does have a slight latency hit when compared to the SSD used
    - Not a great value for anyone building a higher-end new system
    - Software needs an FAQ
    - No SMART monitoring
    - Only as good as the SSD used



    Looking at the numbers though, it is still significantly slower than a pure SSD solution... especially for reading and random access (bare in mind that this review only includes a bottom end SSD for comparison) so I think it's worth putting the money towards a higher capcity SSD instead
    Last edited by SiM; 14-11-2010 at 12:41 PM.

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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    According to the numbers you've just posted Sim, it's always slower than a velociraptor. Given the expense of an SSD + 320GB hard drive, the velociraptor seems the much better option.

    Assuming you need a fast 300GB HD today, of course, because if it's nonessential then holding on until you can buy a full-on 300GB SSD seems the more sensible approach.

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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    Gaming: SSD.

    Video editing: RAID 1+0 with a hardware RAID card and 10k HDDs.

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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    Wouldn't a Vertex 2E/Corsair F60 do him more than fine, assuming his videos aren't going over 50GB during editing/encoding.
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    I had a quick change to phy with one of those hybrid drives while in Silicon Valley this week - they certainly improove things like login time , but for video editing where you are likly to have a constantly changing working set cache isn't going to help - you need more of a tiered storage. SSD writes are not very clever unless you can serialise them.
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    Re: SSD boosters (for Sata platter drives?)

    OK... think I'd be better getting him some big ass SATA drives and getting him to stream from one, into the software, out to another and have the OS and apps on the third.

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